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The  pleasantest  things  in  the  world  are  pleasant 
thoughts,  and  the  great  art  in  life  is  to  have  as  many 
of  them  as  possible.  —Bovh, 


To  get  peace,  if  you  do  want  it,  make  for  yourselves 
nests  of  pleasant  thoughts.  None  of  us  yet  knows,  for 
none  of  us  has  been  taught  in  early  youth,  what  fairy 
palaces  we  may  build  of  beautiful  thoughts — proof 
against  all  adversity.  Bright  fancies,  satisfied  mem- 
ories, noble  histories,  faithful  sayings,  treasure-houses 
of  precious  and  restful  thoughts,  which  care  cannot 
disturb,  nor  pain  make  gloomy,  nor  poverty  take  away 
from  us — houses  built  without  hands  for  our  souls  to 
live  in.  —Ruskin. 

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Thoughts 


I  saw  the  mountains  stand 
Silent,  wonderful,  and  grand, 
Looking  out  across  the  land 
When  the  golden  light  was  falling 
On  distant  dome  and  spire; 
And  I  heard  a  low  voice  calling, 
"Come  up  higher,  come  up  higher, 
From  the  lowland  and  the  mire, 
From  the  mist  of  earth  desire, 
From  the  vain  pursuit  of  pelf, 
From  the  attitude  of  self; 
Come  up  higher,  come  up  higher." 

— James  G.  Clarke, 


lo  Thoughts 


The  thrift  of  time  will  repay  in  after  life  with  usury 
of  profit  beyond  your  most  sanguine  dreams,  and 
waste  of  it  will  make  you  dwindle  alike  in  intellec- 
tual and  moral  stature  beyond  your  darkest  reckon- 
ing. —Gladstone. 

Never  bear  more  than  one  kind  of  trouble  at  a 
time.  Some  people  bear  three — all  they  have  had, 
all  they  have  now,  and  all  they  expect  to  have. 

— Edward  Everett  Hale. 

Age  is  opportunity  no  less 

Than  youth  itself,  though  in  another  dress; 
And  as  the  evening  twilight  fades  away 

The  sky  is  filled  with  stars  invisible  by  day. 

— Longfellow. 

If  there  is  any  person  to  whom  you  feel  dislike, 
that  is  the  person  of  whom  you  ought  never  to  speak. 

—R.  Cecil. 

The  great  thing  in  the  world  is  not  so  much  where 
we  stand,  as  in  what  direction  we  are  moving. 

— Oliver    Wendell   Holmes. 

In  nature  there  is  no  blemish  but  the  mind ; — none 
can  be  called  deformed  but  the  unkind. 

— Shakespeare. 


Thoughts  II 


*You  never  can  tell  what  your  thoughts  will  do, 

In  bringing  you  hate  or  love ; 
For  thoughts  are  things,  and  their  airy  wings 

Are  swifter  than  carrier  doves. 
They  follow  the  law  of  the  universe, — 

Each  thing  must  create  its  kind ; 
And  they  speed  o'er  the  track  to  bring  you  back 

Whatever  went  out  from  your  mind." 


12  Thoughts 


Do  the  duty  which  lies  nearest  thee,  which  thou 
knowest  to  be  a  duty.  Thy  second  duty  will  already 
have  become  clearer.  ^Carlyle. 

We  need  a  revival  of  the  individual.  The  question 
is  not,  What  are  they  doing? — ^but.  What  am  I  doing? 
Not,  Why  do  you  not  do  this,  that,  or  the  other? — 
but,  Why  am  not  I  doing  this,  that,  or  the  other  ? 

— Jenkin  Lloyd  Jones. 

That  man  is  blessed  who  every  day  is  permitted  to 
behold  anything  so  pure  and  serene  as  the  western 
sky  at  sunset,  while  revolutions  vex  the  world. 

— Henry  D.  Thoreau. 

There's  life  alone  in  duty  done. 

And  rest  alone  in  striving.      ^Whittier. 

It  is  a  matter  of  economy  to  be  happy,  to  view  life 
and  all  its  conditions  from  the  brightest  angle;  it  en- 
ables one  to  seize  life  at  its  very  best.  It  expands 
the  soul.  --H.  W.  Dresser, 

To  educate  the  heart,  one  must  be  willing  to  go  out 
of  himself,  and  to  come  into  loving  contact  with 
others.  — James  Freeman  Clarke. 

Associate  reverently,  and  as  much  as  you  can,  with 
your  loftiest  thought.  ^Henry  D,  Thoreau. 


Thoughts  13 


This  question  then  is  ours — ^are  we  doing  our  part 
in  the  growth  of  the  race?  In  the  current  of  Hfe  are 
we  moving  forward?  Do  our  years  mark  milestones 
in  humanity's  struggle  towards  perfection?  Is  the 
God  within  us  so  much  more  unrolled,  when  our  de- 
velopment has  reached  its  highest  point?  Can  we 
transmit  to  our  children  a  better  heritage  of  brain  and 
soul  than  our  fathers  left  to  us  ?  Has  the  race  through 
us  gained  some  little  in  the  direction  of  the  law  of 
love?  If  we  have  done  our  part  in  this  struggle  our 
lives  have  not  been  in  vain.        ^David  Starr  Jordan, 


14  Thoughts 


Virgil  said  of  the  winning  crew  in  his  boat-race, 
"They  can,  because  they  believe  they  can." 

Let  us  be  of  good  cheer,  remembering  that  the  mis- 
fortunes hardest  to  beai  are  those  which  never  come. 

— Lowell, 

To  be  wise  we  must  first  learn  to  be  happy:  for 
those  who  can  finally  issue  forth  from  self  by  the  por- 
tal of  happiness,  know  infinitely  wider  freedom  than 
those  who  pass  through  the  gate  of  sadness. 

— Maurice  Materlinck, 

When  we  humor  our  weaknesses  they  force  them- 
selves continually  upon  our  attention,  like  spoiled  chil- 
dren. When  we  assert  our  mastery  of  ourselves  and 
compel  its  recognition,  we  stand  secure  in  our  sov- 
ereign rights.  — Chas,  B,  Newcomb. 

Put  away  all  sarcasm  from  your  speech.  Never 
complain.  Do  not  prophesy  evil.  Have  a  good  word 
for  everyone,  or  else  keep  silent. 

— Henry  Ward  Beecher. 

Boys  flying  kites  haul  in  their  white  winged  birds. 
You  can't  do  that  way  when  you're  flying  words. 
Thoughts  unexpressed  may  sometimes  fall  back  dead. 
But  God  himself  can't  stop  them  when  they're  said. 

—Will  Carleton. 


Thoughts  15 


Mould  conditions  aright,  and  men  will  grow  good 
*0  fit  them.  — Horace  Fletcher, 

Pride 
Is  littleness;  he  who  feels  contempt 
For  any  living  thing  hath  faculties 
Which  he  has  never  used.        ^Wordsworth. 

Treat  your  friends  for  what  you  know  them  to  be. 
Regard  no  surfaces.  Consider  not  what  they  did, 
but  what  they  intended.  — Henry  D.  Thoreau. 

Small  kindnesses,  small  courtesies,  small  considera- 
tions, habitually  practiced  in  our  social  intercourse, 
give  a  greater  charm  to  the  character  than  the  display 
of  great  talent  and  accomplishments.  — Kelty. 

I  believe  that  the  mind  can  be  profaned  by  the  habit 
of  attending  to  trivial  things,  so  that  all  our  thoughts 
shall  be  tinged  with  triviality.       —Henry  D.  Thoreau. 

I  Don*t  hang  a  dismal  picture  on  the  wall,  and  do 
not  daub  with  sables  and  glooms  in  your  conversation. 
Don*t  be  a  cynic  and  disconsolate  preacher. 

— Emerson. 

No  good  thing  is  failure  and  no  evil  thing  success. 
— W.  C.  Gannett's  favorite  proverb. 


i6  Thoughts 


iWisdom  is  knowing  what  to  do  next ; 

Skill  is  knowing  how  to  do  it,  and  Virtue  is  doing  it. 

— David  Starr  Jordan. 

Always  laugh  when  you  can ;  it  is  a  cheap  medicine. 
Merriment  is  a  philosophy  not  well  understood.  It  is 
the  sunny  side  of  existence.  --Byron. 

If  we  are  not  responsible  for  the  thoughts  that  pass 
our  doors,  we  are  at  least  responsible  for  those  we  ad- 
mit and  entertain.  Charles  B.  Newcontb. 

Not  for  the  crying, 

Not  for  the  loud  beseeching 

Will  peace  draw  near. 
Rest  with  palms  folded. 
Rest  with  thine  eyelids  fallen, 

Lo!  peace  is  here.         — ^.  R,  Sill 

Would  you  remain  always  young,  and  would  you 
carry  all  joy  and  buoyancy  of  youth  into  your  maturer 
years?  Then  have  care  concerning  but  one  thing — 
how  you  live  in  your  thought  world. 

—R.  W,  Trine. 


Thoughts  \^ 


Lord,  for  to-morrow  and  its  needs 

I  do  not  pray, 
Help  me  from  stain  of  sin 

Just  for  to-day. 

Let  me  both  diligently  work 

And  duly  pray, 
Let  me  be  kind  in  word  and  deed 

Just  for  to-day. 

Let  me  be  slow  to  do  my  will, 

Prompt  to  obey, 
Help  me  to  sacrifice  myself 

Just  for  to-day. 

Let  me  no  wrong  or  idle  word 

Unthinking  say. 
Put  Thou  Thy  seal  upon  my  lips 

Just  for  to-day. 

So  for  to-morrow  and  its  needs 
I  do  not  pray. 
But  keep  me,  guide  me,  hold  me,  Lord, 

Just   for  to-day.  — Canon  Farrar. 


i8  Thoughts 


To  live  in  love  is  to  live  an  everlasting  youth.  Who- 
ever enters  old  age  by  this  royal  road  will  find  the 
last  of  life  to  be  the  very  best  of  life.  Instead  of 
finding  himself  descending  the  hills  of  life,  he  will 
find  it  up-hill  all  the  way,  into  clearer  air.  There  the 
vision  reaches  further ;  here  the  sunsets  are  more  gol- 
den and  the  twilight  lasts  longer. 

— Mrs.  Mary  A.  Livermore. 


Thoughts  19 


Those  who  live  on  the  mountain  have  a  longer  day 
than  those  who  live  in  the  valley.  Sometimes  all  we 
need  to  brighten  our  day  is  to  rise  a  little  higher. 

— Rev,  S.  J.  Barrows. 

Good  luck  is  the  willing  handmaid  of  upright,  en- 
ergetic character,  and  conscientious  observance  of 
duty.  — James  Russell  Lowell. 

The  highest  compact  we  can  make  with  our  fellow 
is,  let  there  be  truth  between  us  two  forevermore. 

— Emerson. 

Unfaithfulness  in  the  keeping  of  an  appointment  is 
an  act  of  clear  dishonesty.  .You  may  as  well  borrow 
a  person's  money  as  his  time.  ^Horace  Mann, 

All  service  ranks  the  same  with  God — 
There  is  no  last  nor  first.  —Browning. 

Logic  makes  only  one  demand,  that  of  conscience. 
But  life  makes  a  thousand.  The  body  wants  health; 
the  imagination  cries  out  for  beauty;  and  the  heart 
for  love.  Pride  asks  for  consideration;  the  soul 
yearns  for  peace;  the  conscience  for  holiness;  our 
whole  being  is  athirst  for  happiness  and  for  perfec- 
tion. -^Amiel. 


20  Thoughts 


What  if  it  does  look  like  rain,  it  is  fine  now ! 

— William  Smith, 

Was  there  ever  a  wiser  or  more  loving  conspiracy 
than  that  which  keeps  the  venerable  figure  of  Santa 
Claus  from  slipping  away,  with  all  the  other  old-time 
myths,  into  the  forsaken  wonderland  of  the  past? 

— Hamilton   Wright  Mabie. 

Mankind  are  always  happier  for  having  been  happy. 
So  that  if  you  make  them  happy  now,  you  make  them 
happy  twenty  years  hence  by  the  memory  of  it. 

— Sydney  Smith. 

Never  fancy  you  could  be  something  if  only  you  had 
a  different  lot  and  sphere  assigned  you.  The  very 
things  that  you  most  deprecate,  as  fatal  limitations  or 
obstructions,  are  probably  what  you  most  want.  What 
you  call  hindrances,  obstacles,  discouragements,  are 
probably  God's  opportunities.  —Horace  Bushneli 

Who  may  not  strive,  may  yet  fulfil 

The  harder  task  of  standing  still. 

And  good  but  wished,  with  God  is  done. 

—Whittier. 

Happiness  and  the  sense  of  victory  are  only  for 
those  who  live  for  conscience  and  duty  and  the  soul's 
higher  ideals.  —Newell  Dwight  Hillis. 


Thoughts  21 


"Try  this  for  one    day: — Think  as    though    your 
thoughts  were  visible  to  all  about  you." 


22  Thoughts 


The  world  turns  aside  to  let  any  man  pass  who 
knows  whither  he  is  going.        —David  Starr  Jordan. 

Beware  lest  thy  friend  learn  to  tolerate  one  frailty 
of  thine,  and  so  an  obstacle  be  raised  to  the  progress 
of  thy  love.  ^Thoreau. 

As  soon  as  a  stranger  is  introduced  into  any  com- 
pany, one  of  the  first  questions  which  all  wish  to  have 
answered,  is,  How  does  that  man  get  his  living?  And 
with  reason;  every  man  is  a  consumer,  and  ought  to 
be  a  producer.  He  fails  to  make  his  place  good  in  the 
world  unless  he  not  only  pays  his  debts  but  also  adds 
something  to  the  common  wealth.  —Emerson. 

All  impatience  disturbs  the  circulation,  scatters 
force,  makes  concentration  difficult  if  not  impossible. 

— C.  B.  Newcomh, 

When  the  sun  of  joy  is  hidden 

And  the  sky  is  overcast. 
Just  remember  light  is  coming 

And  a  storm  can  never  last. 

—/.  B.  Smiley. 

There  is  no  music  in  a  rest,  that  I  know  of,  but 
there  is  the  making  of  music  in  it.  ^"Ruskin. 


Thoughts  23 


Our  lives  are  songs; 

God  writes  the  words, 
And  we  set  them  to  music  at  leisure : 
And  the  song  is  sad,  or  the  song  is  glad 
As  we  choose  to  fashion  the  measure. 

We  must  write  the  song, 

Whatever  the  words, 
Whatever  its  rhyme,  or  meter ; 
And  if  it  is  sad,  we  must  make  it  glad. 
And  if  sweet,  we  must  make  it  sweeter. 

— Gibbon. 

For  what  you  find  in  these  sweet  days. 
Depends  on  how  you  go  about  it ; 

A  glad  heart  helps  poor  eyes  to  see, 
What  brightest  eyes  can't  see  without  it. 

One  child  sees  sunlit  air  and  sky 

And  bursting  leaf  buds,  round  and  ruddy ; 
Another  looks  at  his  own  feet, 

And  only  sees  that  it  is  muddy ! 

^Henrietta  R.  Eliot, 


24  Thoughts 


The  work  of  the  world  is  done  by  few ; 
God  asks  that  a  part  be  done  by  you. 

— Sarah  K,  Bolton. 

This  nation,  under  God,  shall  have  a  new  birth  of 
freedom,  and  government  of  the  people,  by  the  people, 
for  the  people,  shall  not  perish  from  the  earth. 

— Abraham  Lincoln. 

We  are  haunted  by  an  ideal  life,  and  it  is  because 
we  have  within  us  the  beginning  and  the  possibility 
of  it.  — Phillips  Brooks. 

Earth's  crammed  with  heaven. 

And  every  common  bush  afire  with  God. 

— E.  B.  Browning. 

Thoughts  are  forces:  through  their  instrumentality 
we  have  in  our  grasp,  and  as  our  rightful  heritage, 
the  power  of  making  life  and  all  its  manifold  condi- 
tions exactly  what  we  will.  —R-   W.  Trine. 

People  seem  not  to  see  that  their  opinion  of  the 
world  is  also  a  confession  of  character.       —Emerson, 


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^  m  "yHE  understanding  is  the  z'estibule  of 

m         the    mind!      Uncover    thy    head,    and 

M  enter  the   temple   of  the  soul!  behold 

the  power,   the  beauty,  and  the  love! 

If  we  liad  nothing  but  understanding,  how  little 

should  we  know  or  think  or  feel! 


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Thoughts  25 


Blessed  are  the  Happiness  Makers.  Blessed  are 
they  who  know  how  to  shine  on  one's  gloom  with  their 
cheer.  —Henry  Ward  Bcecher. 

The  time  will  come  when  the  civilized  man  will  feel 
that  the  rights  of  every  living  creature  on  the  earth 
are  as  sacred  as  his  own.  Anything  short  of  this  can- 
not be  perfect  civilization.  ^David  Starr  Jordan, 

Search  thine  own  heart.     What  paineth  thee 

In  others,  in  thyself  may  be; 
All  dust  is  frail,  all  flesh  is  weak ; 

Be  thou  the  true  man  thou  dost  seek. 

—Whittier, 

Beware  of  despairing  about  yourself. 

— 5"^  Augustine, 

If  you  were  born  to  honor,  show  it  now : 
If  put  upon  you,  make  the  judgment  good 
That  thought  you  worthy  of  it.        Shakespeare, 

Then  a  voice  within  his  breast 
Whispered,  audible  and  clear : 
"Do  thy  duty ;  that  is  best ; 
Leave  unto  the  Lord  the  rest !" 

— Longfellow, 


26  Thoughts 


"There  are  loyal  hearts,  there  are  spirits  brave. 
There  are  souls  that  are  pure  and  true ; 
Then  give  to  the  world  the  best  you  have. 
And  the  best  will  come  to  you. 
Give  love,  and  love  to  your  heart  will  flow, 
A  strength  in  your  utmost  need ; 
Have  faith,  and  a  score  of  hearts  will  show 
Their  faith  in  your  word  and  deed." 


Thoughts  27 


Fortune  will  call  at  the  smiling  gate. 

— Japanese  Proverb. 

"Talk  health ;  the  dreary  never-ending  tale 

Of  mortal  maladies  is  worn  and  stale. 

You  cannot  charm  or  interest  or  please 

By  harping  on  that  minor  chord,  disease. 

Say  you  are  well,  or  all  is  well  with  you 

And  God  shall  hear  your  words  and  make  them  true.*' 

Whenever  you  are  angry,  be  assured  that  it  is  not 
only  a  present  evil,  but  that  you  have  increased  a 
habit.  —Epictetus. 

How  true  it  is  that  what  we  really  see  day  by  day 
depends  less  on  the  objects  and  scenes  before  our  eyes 
than  on  the  eyes  themselves  and  the  minds  and  hearts 
that  use  them.  ^F.  D.  Huntington. 

You  have  not  fulfilled  every  duty,  unless  you  have 
fulfilled  that  of  being  pleasant.  —Charles  Buxton. 

If  I  am  not  for  myself  who  will  be  for  me?  But  if 
I  am  for  myself  alone  what  am  I  ?    If  not  now — ^when  ? 

^Hillel 


28  Thoughts 


I  asked  the  New  Year  for  some  motto  sweet. 
Some  rule  of  life  by  which  to  guide  my  feet ; 
I  asked  and  paused.     It  answered,  soft  and  low : 

"God's  will  to  know." 
"Will  knowledge  then  suffice,  New  Year?"  I  cried; 
But  ere  the  question  into  silence  died, 
The  answer  came :     "Nay ;  this  remember,  too, 

God's  will  to  do." 
"To  know;  to  do;  can  this  be  all  we  give 
To  Him  in  Whom  we  are,  and  move  and  live  ? 
No  more.  New  Year  ?"  "This,  too,  must  be  your  care : 

God's  will  to  bear." 
Once  more  I  asked :    "Is  there  still  more  to  tell  ?" 
And  once  again  the  answer  sweetly  fell ; 
"Yea,  this  one  thing,  all  other  things  above, 

God's  will  to  love." 

—7.  M.  C.  Bouchard,  S.  I, 


Thoughts  29 


Shun  idleness,  it  is  the  rust  that  attaches  itself  to 
the  most  brilliant  metals.  — Voltaire. 

Fe'w  men  suspect  how  much  mere  talk  fritters  away 
spiritual  energy — ^that  which  should  be  spent  in  action, 
spends  itself  in  words.  Hence  he  who  restrains  that 
love  of  talk  lays  up  a  fund  of  spiritual  strength. 

— F.  W.  Robertson. 

Truthfulness  is  the  foundation  of  all  personal  ex- 
cellence. It  exhibits  itself  in  conduct.  It  is  recti- 
tude, truth  in  action,  and  shines  through  every  word 
and  deed.  —Samuel  Smiles. 

The  cry  of  the  age  is  more  for  fraternity  than  for 
charity.  If  one  exists,  the  other  will  follow,  or  better 
still,  will  not  be  needed.  —Dr.   Henry   D.    Chapin. 

There  is  philosophy  as  well  as  philanthropy  in  the 
keeping  in  touch  with  all  sweetness  and  love,  in  the 
being  swift  to  be  kind.  This  is  living  on  the  spiritual 
plane,  and  spirituality  is  power.  —Lilian  Whiting. 

Manners  are  the  happy  ways  of  doing  things.  If 
they  are  superficial,  so  are  the  dewdrops,  which  give 
such  a  depth  to  the  morning  meadow?,        —Emerson. 

Being  all  fashioned  of  the  self -same  dust. 
Let  us  be  merciful  as  well  as  just. 

— Longfellow. 


30  Thoughts 


"The  man  who  never  makes  mistakes  loses  a  great 
many  chances  to  learn  something." 

Why  should  a  true  and  sincere  appreciation  be 
termed  flattery,  and  degraded  to  the  level  of  insincere 
praise?  Why  should  an  individual  be  accused  of  act- 
ing from  base  and  selfish  policy  because  he  feels  the 
glow  and  warmth  of  social  response  ? 

— The  World  Beautiful,  Lilian  Whiting. 

Our  power  over  others  lies  not  so  much  in  the 
amount  of  thought  within  us  as  in  the  power  of  bring- 
ing it  out.  —W.  E.  Channing. 

Could  a  greater  miracle  take  place  than  for  us  to 
look  through  each  other's  eyes  for  an  instant? 

— Thoreau. 

Why  should  we  wear  black  for  the  guests  of  God  ? 

— Ruskin. 

I  always  seek  the  good  that  is  in  people  and  leave 
the  bad  to  Him  who  made  mankind  and  knows  how, 
to  round  off  the  corners.  -—Goethe's  Mother. 

I  am  not  concerned  that  I  have  no  place, 

I  am  concerned  how  I  may  fit  myself  for  one. 

I  am  not  concerned  that  I  am  not  known, 

I  seek  to  be  worthy  to  be  known.        —Confucius. 


Thoughts  31 


The  sunrise  never  failed  us  yet.        ^^elia  Thaxter. 

Don't  bewail  and  bemoan.  Omit  the  negative  prop- 
ositions. Nerve  us  with  incessant  affirmations.  Don't 
waste  yourself  in  rejection,  nor  bark  against  the 
bad,  but  chant  the  beauty  of  the  good.      ^Emerson, 

How  the  sting  of  poverty,  or  small  means,  is  gone 
when  one  keeps  house  for  one's  own  comfort,  and 
not  for  the  comfort  of  one's  neighbors. 

. — Dinah  Maria  Muloch, 

Culture  is  not  an  accident  of  birth,  although  our 
surroundings  advance  or  retard  it ;  it  is  always  a  matter 
of  individual  education.  ^Hamilton  W.  Mahie. 

No  man  need  hunt  for  his  mission.  His  mission 
comes  to  him.  It  is  not  above,  it  is  not  below,  it  is 
not  far — not  to  make  happy  human  faces  now  and 
then  among  the  children  of  misery,  but  to  keep  happy 
human  faces  about  us  all  the  time. 

— /.  F.  W.  Ware. 

God's  best  gift  to  us  is  not  things,  but  opportunities. 

—Alice  W.  Rollins. 

Whoever  will  prosper  in  any  line  of  life  must  save 
his  own  time  and  do  his  own  thinking.  He  must  spend 
neither  time  nor  money  which  he  has  not  earned. 

— David  Starr  Jordan. 


32  Thoughts 


I  pray  you,  O  excellent  wife,  not  to  cumber  your- 
self and  me  to  get  a  rich  dinner  for  this  man  or  this 
woman  who  has  alighted  at  our  gate,  nor  a  bed-cham- 
ber made  ready  at  too  great  a  cost.  These  things 
they  can  get  for  a  dollar  at  any  village.  But  let 
this  stranger,  if  he  will,  in  your  looks,  in  your  ac- 
cent, and  behavior,  read  your  heart  and  earnestness, 
your  thought  and  will,  which  he  cannot  buy  at  any 
price  in  any  village  or  city,  and  which  he  may  well 
travel  fifty  miles  and  dine  sparely  and  sleep  hard  in 
order  to  behold.  Certainly,  let  the  board  be  spread 
and  let  the  bed  be  dressed  for  the  traveler ;  but  let  not 
the  emphasis  of  hospitality  lie  in  these  things.  Honor 
to  the  house  where  they  are  simple  to  the  verge  of 
hardship,  so  that  there  the  intellect  is  awake  and  reads 
the  laws  of  the  Universe^ 

— Emerson. 


JOHN    VANCE    CHENEY 


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HE  happiest   heart  that  ever  heat 
Was  in   some   quiet   breast, 

That     found     the     common     daylight 
sweet. 
And  left  to  heaven  the  rest. 


Thoughts  33 


'The  secret  of  the  joy  of  hving  is  the  proper  appre- 
ciation of  what  we  actually  possess." 

So  then  believe  that  every  bird  that  sings, 
And  every  flower  that  stars  the  elastic  sod, 

And  every  thought  the  happy  summer  brings 
To  the  pure  spirit  is  a  word  of  God. 

— Coleridge. 

Thrust  an  Emerson  into  any  Concord,  and  his  pun- 
gent presence  will  penetrate  the  entire  region.  Soon 
all  who  come  within  the  radius  of  his  life  respond  to 
his  presence  as  flowers  and  trees  respond  with  boughs, 
brilliant  and  fragrant,  to  the  sunshine.  After  a  little, 
each  Emerson  stands  girt  about  with  Hawthomes, 
Whittiers,  Holmeses  and  Lowells. 

—Newell  Dwight  Hillis. 

Make  it  your  habit  not  to  be  critical  about  small 
things.  — Edward  Everett  Hale. 

The  nobler  life  is  just  as  possible  to  hs  all  as  that 
which  is  ignoble.     The  moment  one  will  assert  his 
freedom  from  petty  cares,  perplexities,  troubles,  and 
anxieties,  that  moment  they  fall  off  of  themselves. 
— A  Study  of  Mrs.  Browning,  Lilian  Whiting. 

He  approaches  nearest  to  the  gods  who  knows  how 
to  be  silent  even  though  he  knows  he  is  in  the  right. 

—Cato. 


34  Thoughts 


Ah!  let  us  hope  that  to  our  praise 

Good  God  not  only  reckons 
The  moments  when  we  tread  His  ways. 

But  when  the  spirit  beckons — 
That  some  slight  good  is  also  wrought 

Beyond  self-satisfaction, 
When  we  are  simply  good  in  thought, 

Howe'er  we  fail  in  action.  —Lowell 


Thoughts  35 


We  need  only  obey.  There  is  guidance  for  each  of 
us,  and  by  lowly  listening,  we  shall  hear  the  right  word. 

— Emerson. 

When  a  man  has  not  a  good  reason  for  doing  a 
thing,  he  has  one  reason  for  letting  it  alone. 

—Sir  Walter  Scott. 

Pure  religion  as  taught  by  Jesus  Christ  is  a  life, 
a  growth,  a  divine  spirit  within,  coming  out  in  love 
and  sympathy  and  helpfulness  to  our  fellow-men. 

—Dr.  H.  W.  Thomas. 

Be  sure  of  the  foundation  of  your  life.  Know  why 
you  live  as  you  do.  Be  ready  to  give  a  reason  for  it. 
Do  not,  in  such  a  matter  as  life,  build  on  opinion 
or  custom,  or  what  you  guess  is  true.  Make  it  a  mat- 
ter of  certainty  and  science.     —Thomas  Starr  King. 

Nothing  raises  the  price  of  a  blessing  like  its  re- 
moval; whereas,  it  was  its  continuance  which  should 
have  taught  us  its  value.  —Hannah  More. 

The  soul  occupied  with  great  ideas,  best  performs 
small  duties.  —lames  Martineau. 


36  Thou  g  h  t  s 


Christianity  wants  nothing  so  much  in  the  world 
as  sunny  people,  and  the  old  are  hungrier  for  love 
than  for  bread.  The  Oil  of  Joy  is  very  cheap,  and  if 
you  can  help  the  poor  with  a  Garment  of  Praise,  it  will 
be  better  for  them  than  blankets.  —Drummond. 

You  will  find  it  less  easy  to  uproot  faults  than  to 
choke  them  by  gaining  virtues.  Do  not  think  of  your 
faults,  still  less  of  others'  faults.  In  every  person 
who  comes  near  you  look  for  what  is  good  and  strong ; 
honor  that;  rejoice  in  it;  and  as  you  can,  try  to  imi- 
tate it ;  and  your  faults  will  drop  off  like  dead  leaves, 
when  their  time  comes.  —Ruskin. 

When  you  hold  persistently  to  the  successful  mental 
state,  you  become  a  magnet  drawing  other  people  to 
aid  you  as  you  in  return  can  aid  them.  But  if  you  are 
much  of  the  time  despondent  and  gloomy,  you  be- 
come the  negative  magnet  driving  the  best  from  you. 

— Prentice  Mulford, 

There  are  two  days  about  which  nobody  should 
ever  worry,  and  these  are  yesterday  and  to-morrow. 

—Robert  J.  Burdette. 

A  child,  however  educated,  is  still  untaught  if  by 
his  teaching  we  have  not  emphasized  his  individual 
character,  if  we  have  not  strengthened  his  will  and 
its  guide  and  guardian,  the  mind. 

— David  Starr  Jordan. 


Thoughts  37 


"I  am  only  a  child  who  is  lying 
On  the  bosom  of  Infinite  Love. 

I  speak  not  of  living  or  dying ; 

I  know  not  of  sorrow  or  crying ; 
My  thoughts  are  dwelling  above. 

'The  spring  of  the  life  that  is  flowing 

Is  hidden  with  Christ  in  God. 
Not  yet  the  mystery  knowing, 
I  feel  that  the  peace  is  growing, 

As  a  river  grows  deep  and  broad. 

"All  I  need  without  price  I  am  buying 
By  my  trust  in  the  Goodness  above. 

There's  an  end  to  my  yearning  and  sighing. 

For  just  like  a  child  I  am  lying 
On  the  bosom  of  Infinite  Love." 


38  Thoughts 


The  optimist,  by  his  superior  wisdom  and  insight, 
is  making  his  own  heaven,  and  in  the  degree  that  he 
makes  his  own  heaven,  is  he  helping  to  make  one  for 
all  the  world  beside.  —R.  W.  Trine, 

Do  not  let  your  head  run  upon  that  which  is  none 
of  your  own,  but  pick  out  some  of  the  best  of  your 
circumstances,  and  consider  how  eagerly  you  would 
wish  for  them,  were  they  not  in  your  possession. 

— Marcus  Aurelius. 

Insist  on  your  self ;  never  imitate.  There  is  at  this 
moment  for  you  an  utterance  brave  and  grand  as  that 
of  the  colossal  chisel  of  Phidias,  or  the  pen  of  Moses 
or  Dante,  but  different  from  these.  If  you  can  hear 
what  these  patriarchs  say,  surely  you  can  reply  to 
them  in  the  same  pitch  of  voice.  —Emerson. 

Just  because  there's  fallen 

A  snow-flake  on  his  forehead. 
He  must  go  and  fancy 

'Tis  winter  all  the  year !  —Aldrkh. 

How  poor  they  are  that  have  not  patience. 

— Shakespeare. 

O  God,  animate  us  to  cheerfulness !  May  we  have 
a  joyful  sense  of  our  blessings,  learn  to  look  on  the 
bright  circumstances  of  our  lot,  and  maintain  a  perpet- 
ual contentedness.  — JF.  E.  Channing. 


Thoughts  39 


Thy  love  shall  chant  its  own  beatitudes 
After  its  own  self-working.     A  child's  kiss 
Set  on  the  sighing  lips  shall  make  thee  glad ; 
A  poor  man  served  by  thee  shall  make  thee  rich ; 
A  sick  man  helped  by  thee  shall  make  thee  strong ; 
Thou  shalt  be  served  thyself  by  every  sense 
Of  service  which  thou  renderest. 

— E.  B.  Browning. 

"Then  take  this  honey  for  the  bitterest  cup ; 
There  is  no  failure,  save  in  giving  up ; 
No  real  fall  so  long  as  one  still  tries. 
For  seeming  setbacks  make  the  strong  man  wise. 
There's  no  defeat,  in  truth,  save  from  within ; 
Unless  you're  beaten  there,  you're  bound  to  win." 

A  crowd  of  troubles  passed  him  by 

As  he  with  courage  waited ; 
He  said,  "Where  do  you  troubles  fly 

When  you  are  thus  belated  ?'* 
"We  go,"  they  say,  "to  those  who  mope. 

Who  look  on  life  dejected. 
Who  weakly  say  'good-bye*  to  hope. 

We  go  where  we're  expected." 

— Francis  J.  Allison. 


40  Thoughts 


"Bring  me  men  to  match  my  mountains. 
Bring  me  men  to  match  my  plains ; 
Men  with  empires  in  their  purpose 
And  new  eras  in  their  brains." 

"Who  will  remember  that  skies  are  gray 
If  he  carries  a  happy  heart  all  day?" 

A  man  is  specially  and  divinely  fortunate,  not  when 
his  conditions  are  easy,  but  when  they  evoke  the  very 
best  that  is  in  him ;  when  they  provoke  him  to  noble- 
ness, and  sting  him  to  strength,  when  they  clear  his 
vision,  kindle  his  enthusiasm  and  inspire  his  will. 

— Hamilton  Wright  Mahie. 

The  deeper  the  feeling  the  less  demonstrative  will 
be  the  expression  of  it.  —Balzac. 

The  most  I  can  do  for  my  friend  is  simply  to  be  his 
friend.  If  he  knows  I  am  happy  in  loving  him,  he 
will  want  no  other  reward.  —H.  D.  Thoreau. 

"Live  blameless ;  God  is  near." 
— Inscribed  over  the  door  of  the  house  of  Linnaeus,  at  Hanv- 
merhy,  Sweden. 

It  is  always  good  to  know,  if  only  in  passing,  charm- 
ing human  beings.  It  refreshes  one  like  flowers  and 
woods  and  clear  brooks.  —George  Eliot. 


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PRAY  thee,  then. 

Write  me  as  one  who   loves   his  fellow 
men. 


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Thoughts  41 


Do  not  discharge  in  haste  the  arrow  which  can 
never  return:  it  is  easy  to  destroy  happiness;  most 
difficult  to  restore  it.  ^Herder. 

Disappointment  should  always  be  taken  as  a  stim- 
ulant, and  never  viewed  as  a  discouragement. 

— C.  B.  Newcomb, 

In  all  the  crowded  Universe 
There  is  but  one  stupendous  word :  Love. 
There  is  no  tree  that  rears  its  crest, 
No  fern  or  flower  that  cleaves  the  sod 
Nor  bird  that  sings  above  its  nest. 
But  tries  to  speak  this  word  of  God. 

-^/.  G.  Holland. 

He  who  has  a  thousand  friends  has  not  one  friend  to 

spare. 
And  he  who  has  one  enemy  shall  meet  him  everywhere. 

— From  the  Arabic. 

It  IS  a  great  folly  not  to  part  with  your  own  faults, 
which  IS  possible,  but  to  try  instead  to  escape  from 
other  people's  faults,  which  is  impossible. 

— Marcus  Aureliuc. 

"To  persuade  one  soul  to  lead  a  better  life  is  to 
leave  the  world  better  than  you  found  it." 


42  Thoughts 


If  you  intend  to  be  happy,  don't  be  foolish  enough 
to  wait  for  a  just  cause.  —Chap-Book. 


Thoughts  43 


Don't  borrow  a  creed  from  other  people, 
Nior  hang  most  faith  on  the  stoutest  steeple. 
Look  up  for  your  law,  but  oh !  look  higher 
Than  the  hands  on  any  human  spire. 
If  ten  think  alike,  and  you  think  alone. 
That  never  proves  'tis  ten  to  one 
They  are  nght,  you  wrong ;  for  truth,  you  see. 
Is  not  a  thing  of  majority. 
It  never  can  make  you  false,  them  true. 
That  there's  more  of  them  than  there  is  of  you : 
If  your  touch  is  on  Truth's  garment's  hem. 
There  is  more  of  you  than  a  world  of  them. 
'Tis  not  alone  in  the  Orient  region 
That  a  certain  hero's  name  is  Legion. 
Nor  was  it  only  for  once  to  be 
That  the  whole  herd  together  ran  down  to  the  sea. 

Your  zenith  for  no  man  else  is  true : 
Your  beam  from  the  sun  comes  alone  to  you. 
And  the  thought  the  great  God  gave  your  brain 
Is  your  own  for  the  world,  or  the  world's  in  vain. 

— Edward  Rowland  Sill. 


44  Thoughts 


Discontent  is  want  of  self-reliance :  it  is  infirmity  of 
will.  — Emerson. 

"He  that  brings  sunshine  into  the  lives  of  others 
cannot  keep  it  from  himself." 

Give  us,  oh,  give  us,  the  man  who  sings  at  his  work ! 
Be  his  occupation  what  it  may,  he  is  equal  to  any  of 
those  who  follow  the  same  pursuit  in  silent  suUen- 
ness.  He  does  more  in  the  same  time — he  will  do  it 
better — ^he  will  persevere  longer.  ^Carlyle. 

Set  about  what  thou  intendest  to  do :  the  beginning 
is  half  the  battle.  —Casar. 

By  the  street  of  By-and-By,  one  arrives  at  the  house 
of  Never.  ^Cervantes, 

No  wind  serves  him  who  has  no  destined  port. 

— Montaigne. 

Be  sure  you  give  men  the  best  of  your  wares  though 
they  be  poor  enough;  and  the  gods  will  help  you  to 
lay  by  a  better  store  for  the  future. 

— Henry  D.  Thoreau. 

Reading  is  indeed  to  the  mind  as  food  is  to  the 
body — the  material  of  which  its  fibre  is  made.  It  is 
surprising  to  note  the  difference  in  the  quality  of 
mental  thought  which  even  one-half  hour's  good  read- 
ing each  day  will  make.  ^Lilian  Whiting. 


Thoughts  45 


Men  are  four: 
He  who  knows,  and  knows  he  knows, — 

He  is  wise — follow  him. 
He  who  knows,  and  knows  not  he  knows, — 

He  is  asleep — wake  him : — 
He  who  knows  not,  and  knows  not  he  knows  not,— 

He  is  a  fool — shun  him. 
He  who  knows  not,  and  knows  he  knows  not, — 

He  is  a  child — teach  him. 

— Arabian  Proverb, 


46  Thoughts 


Cherish  ideals  as  the  traveler  cherishes  the  north 
star,  and  keep  the  guiding  light  pure  and  bright  and 
high  above  the  horizon.  ^Newell  Dwight  Hillis. 

The  days  come  and  go  like  muffled  and  veiled  fig- 
ures sent  from  a  distant  friendly  party;  but  they  say 
nothing,  and  if  we  do  not  use  the  gifts  they  bring, 
they  carry  them  as  silently  away.  ^Emerson, 

'Tis  not  in  seeking, 

'Tis  not  in  endless  striving. 

Thy  quest  is  found. 
Be  still  and  listen. 
Be  still  and  drink  the  quiet 

Of  all  around.         — £.  r.  Sill 

To  keep  one's  foot  firmly  set  in  the  way  that  leads 
upwards,  however  dark  and  thorny  it  may  be  at  the 
moment,  is  to  conquer. 

— The    World   Beautiful,   Lilian    Whiting. 

And  daily,  hourly,  loving  and  giving 
In  the  poorest  life  makes  heavenly  living. 

— Rose  Terry  Cooke. 

To  love  is  the  great  glory,  the  last  culture,  the 
highest  happiness ;  to  be  loved  is  little  in  comparison. 
— The  Story  of  William  and  Lucy  Smith,  George  S.  Meriman. 


Thoughts  47 


To  persevere  in  one's  duty,  and  to  be  silent,  is  the 
best  answer  to  calumny.  —Washington. 

I  have  lived  to  know  that  the  secret  of  happiness  is 
never  to  allow  your  energies  to  stagnate. 

— Adam  Clarke. 

Entertaining  is  the  finest  of  all  the  fine  arts,  and  it 
cannot  be  done  by  proxy.  It  cannot  be  done  by  the 
cook,  nor  yet  by  the  decorator.  Let  the  hostess  give 
her  guests  her  personal  interest,  her  sympathetic  com- 
prehension, and  she  will  have  then  mastered  the  deli- 
cate and  subtle  art.  —Lilian  Whiting. 

Read  the  best  books  first,  or  you  may  not  have  a 
chance  to  read  them  at  all.  —Henry  D.  Thoreau. 

I  am  primarily  engaged  to  myself  to  be  a  public  serv- 
ant to  all  the  gods,  to  demonstrate  to  all  men  that 
there  is  a  good  will  and  intelligence  at  the  heart  of 
things,  and  ever  higher  and  yet  higher  leadings. 

— Emerson. 

Be  noble,  and  the  nobleness  that  lies 
In  other  men,  sleeping,  but  never  dead. 
Will  rise  in  majesty  to  meet  thine  own ; 
Then  shalt  thou  see  it  gleam  in  many  eyes, 
Then  will  pure  light  about  thy  way  be  shed. 

— Lowell. 


48  Thoughts 


Few  causes  age  the  body  faster  than  wilful  indo- 
lence and  monotony  of  mind — the  mind,  that  very 
principle  of  physical  youthfulness. 

— James  Lane  Allen. 

"To  speak  wisely  may  not  always  be  easy,  but  not 
to  speak  ill  requires  only  silence/' 

If  you  have  not  slept,  or  if  you  have  slept,  or  if  you 
have  a  headache,  or  sciatica,  or  leprosy,  or  thunder 
stroke,  I  beseech  you  by  all  the  angels  to  hold  your 
peace,  and  not  pollute  the  morning,  to  which  all  the 
housemates  bring  serene  and  pleasant  thoughts,  by 
corruptions  and  groans.  —Emerson. 

"  'Downward  the  path  of  life !'    Oh,  no ! 
Up,  up,  with  patient  steps,  I  go ; 
I  watch  the  skies  fast  brightening  there ; 
I  breathe  a  sweeter,  purer  air." 

Happiness  rarely  is  absent.  It  is  we  that  know  not 
of  its  presence.  The  greatest  felicity  avails  us  noth- 
ing if  we  know  not  that  we  are  happy. 

— Maurice  Materlinck. 

There  is  no  good  in  life  but  love — ^but  love ! 

What  else  looks  good,  is  some  shade  flung  from  love ; 

L-ove  gilds  it,  gives  it  worth.  ---Robert  Browning. 


^^u^€^  '^^a^z^c^&J^i^^^^. 


T 


HE  great  thing  in  the  ivorld  is  not  so 
much  luhere  ive  stand,  as  in  ivhat 
direction  •we  are  moving. 

48 


Thoughts  49 


Instead  of  a  gem,  or  even  a  flower,  cast  the  gift  of  a 
lovely  thought  into  the  heart  of  a  friend. 

— Geo.  Macdonald. 


50  Thoughts 


Be  satisfied  with  nothing  but  your  best. 

— Edward  Rowland  Sill. 

Do  not  think  it  wasted  time  to  submit  yourself  to 
any  influence  that  will  bring  upon  you  any  noble 
feeling.  —Ruskin. 

Thank  God  every  morning  when  you  get  up  that 
you  have  something  to  do  that  day,  which  must  be 
done  whether  you  like  it  or  not.  Being  forced  to 
work,  and  forced  to  do  your  best,  will  breed  in  you 
.     .     .    a  hundred  virtues  which  the  idle  never  know. 

— Charles  Kingsley. 

Foresight  is  very  wise,  but  foresorrow  is  very  fool- 
ish ;  and  castles  are,  at  any  rate,  better  than  dungeons 
in  the  air.  — 5'tr  John  Lubbock. 

It  requires  a  sterner  virtue  than  good  nature  to 
hold  fast  the  truth,  that  it  is  nobler  to  be  shabby  and 
honest,  than  to  do  things  handsomely  in  debt. 

— Juliana  H.  Ewing. 

"Drop  the  subject  when  you  cannot  agree;  there  is 
no  need  to  be  bitter  because  you  know  you  are  right." 

It  is  not  only  a  part  of  the  wisdom  of  happiness, 
but  it  is  absolutely  essential  to  the  conditions  of  any 
true  work  in  the  world,  to  so  live  that  one  may  not  be 
too  greatly  affected  by  the  attitude  of  other  people.  A 
man's  life  is,  after  all,  primarily  between  God  and 
himself.  --Lilian  Whiting. 


Thoughts  51 


Get  your  distaff  ready,  and  God  will  send  you  flax. 
— Mary  A.  Livermore's  favorite  proverb. 

The  thoughts  that  come  often  unsought,  and,  as  it 
were,  drop  into  the  mind,  are  commonly  the  most  val- 
uable we  have,  and  therefore  should  be  secured,  be- 
cause they  seldom  return  again.  —Locke. 

The  little  worries  that  we  meet  each  day 
May  be  as  stumbling-blocks  across  our  way. 
Or  we  may  make  them  stepping-stones  to  be 
Of  grace,  O  Lord,  to  Thee !       —A.  E.  Hamilton. 

A  man's  own  good  breeding  is  the  best  security 
against  other  people's  ill  manners.  —Chesterfield. 

The  best  teacher  of  duties  that  still  lie  near  to  us,  is 
the  practice  of  those  we  see  and  have  at  hand. 

— Carlyle. 

"The  secret  of  a  sweet  and  Christian  life  is  learn- 
ing to  live  by  the  day.  It  is  the  long  stretches  that 
tire  us." 

To  one  who  is  in  the  role  of  host  there  can  be  no 
more  bitter  rebuke  than  to  have  any  guest  or  chance 
caller  go  out  from  the  portals  with  the  feeling  that  he 
is  sorry  he  came — that  he  is  depressed  rather  than  up- 
lifted. For  all  personal  association,  whether  perma- 
nent or  transient,  whether  prearranged  or  a  matter  of 
accidental  contact,  should  leave  behind  it  a  lingering 
charm,  a  deeper  sense  of  the  loveliness  of  life. 

—Lilian  Whiting, 


52  Thoughts 


One  of  the  natural  tendencies  of  the  mortal  mind  is 
toward  proselyting.  The  moment  we  believe  some- 
thing to  be  true,  we  begin  to  try  to  convert  others  to 
our  belief.  We  learn  to  say,  with  some  degree  of  real- 
ization, "God  worketh  in  me  to  will  and  to  do  of  His 
good  pleasure,"  but  we  quite  forget  that  the  same  God 
is  working  equally  in  our  brother  "to  will  and  to  do." 
"I  am  the  door,"  says  the  Christ  within  every  man's 
own  soul.  Now  you  are  trying  to  have  your  dear  one 
enter  in  through  your  door.  He  must  enter  in  through 
his  own  Christ,  his  own  desire. 

— H.  Emilie  Cady. 


Thoughts  53 


You  may  not  be  able  to  leave  your  children  a  great 
inheritance,  but  day  by  day  you  may  be  weaving  coats 
for  them  which  they  will  wear  through  all  eternity. 

— T.  L.  Cuyler. 

He  that  cannot  forgive  others,  breaks  the  bridge 
over  which  he  must  pass  himself;  for  every  man  has 
need  to  be  forgiven.  ^Lord  Herbert. 

We  exhaust  our  strength  in  our  impatience  at  our 
work,  and  the  conditions  that  surround  us.  There  is 
nothing  that  comes  to  us  which  we  could  not  do  easily 
with  true  adjustment,  but  we  waste  our  forces  in  our 
worries.  — C.  B.  Newcomb. 

It  seems  as  if  heroes  had  done  almost  all  for  the 
world  that  they  can  do ;  and  not  much  more  can  come 
until  common  men  awake  and  take  their  common 
tasks.     I  believe  the  common  man's  task  is  the  hardest. 

— Phillips  Brooks. 

When  we  climb  to  heaven  'tis  on  the  rounds  of  love 
to  men.  —Whittier. 

When  you  find  a  person  a  little  better  than  his  word, 
a  little  more  liberal  than  his  promise,  a  little  more  than 
borne  out  in  his  statements  by  facts,  a  little  larger 
in  deed  than  in  speech,  you  recognize  a  kind  of  elo- 
quence in  that  person's  utterance  not  laid  down  in 
Blair  or  Campbell.  —Holmes. 


54  Thoughts 


Young  man!  let  the  nobleness  of  your  mind  impel 
you  to  its  improvement.  You  are  too  strong  to  be 
defeated,  save  by  yourself.  —W.  D.  Howard. 

What  we  earnestly  aspire  to  be,  that  in  some  sense 
we  are.  — Anna  Jameson. 

The  mark  of  the  man  of  the  world  is  absence  of 
pretension.  He  does  not  make  a  speech,  he  takes  a 
low  business  tone,  avoids  all  brag,  promises  not  at  all, 
performs  much.  He  calls  his  employment  by  its  low- 
est names,  and  so  takes  from  evil  tongues  their  sharp- 
est weapon.  ^Emerson. 

"In  judging  others,  weigh  carefully  the  method 
against  the  motive.  If  the  latter  be  pure,  be  patient 
and  charitable,  however  different  from  your  own  the 
method  may  be." 

"Refuse  to  regard  as.  unfortunate  the  treatment  you 
receive  from  others ;  let  it  stimulate  you  to  deal  more 
justly  with  yourself  and  with  them." 

The  strength  of  affection  is  a  proof  not  of  the  worthi- 
ness of  the  object,  but  of  the  largeness  of  the  soul 
which  loves.  ~F.  W.  Robertson. 

Every  flower  is  a  hint  of  His  beauty;  every  grain 
of  wheat  a  token  of  His  beneficence;  every  atom  of 
dust,  a  revelation  of  His  power.  In  and  through  all 
things  He  is  attracting  our  regard.  —Fumess. 


Thoughts  55 


One  never  speaks  of  himself  except  at  a  loss. 

— Montaigne. 

It  is  easy  in  the  world,  to  live  after  the  world's 
opinion:  it  is  easy  in  solitude,  to  live  after  our  own. 
But  the  great  man  is  he  who  in  the  midst  of  the  crowd 
keeps  with  perfect  sweetness  the  independence  of  soli- 
tude. — Emerson. 

If  you  knew  the  light 
That  your  soul  casts  in  my  sight. 

How  I  look  to  you 

For  the  good  and  true, 
The  beauteous  and  the  right. 

— Robert  Browning. 

Manners  impress  as  they  indicate  real  power.  A 
man  who  is  sure  of  his  point,  carries  a  broad  and  con- 
tented expression,  which  everybody  reads.  And  you 
cannot  rightly  train  one  to  an  air  and  manner,  except 
by  making  him  the  kind  of  man  of  whom  that  manner 
is  the  natural  expression.  Nature  forever  puts  a  pre- 
mium on  reality.  —Emerson. 

Who  looks  to  Heaven  alone  to  save  his  soul 
May  keep  the  path,  but  will  not  reach  the  goal : 
But  he  who  walks  in  love  may  wander  far, 
And  God  will  bring  him  where  the  blessed  are. 

—Henry  Van  Dyke, 


56  Thoughts 


'If  you  and  I — just  you  and  I — 
Should  laugh  instead  of  worry ; 
If  we  should  grow — just  you  and  I — 
Kinder  and  sweeter  hearted, 
Perhaps  in  some  near  by  and  by 
A  good  time  might  get  started ; 
Then  what  a  happy  world  'twould  be 
For  you  and  me — for  you  and  me !" 

Let  nothing  disturb  thee, 
Nothing  affright  thee; 
All  things  are  passing; 
God  never  changeth; 
Patient  endurance 
Attaineth  to  all  things; 
Who  God  possesseth 
In  nothing  is  wanting; 
Alone  God  sufficeth. 

— Longfellow. 


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g^     W  E  spoils  his  house  and  thronvs  his  pains 
m       m  aivay 

Whoy    as    the    sun    -veers ^     builds     his 
•windoivs   o\r^ 
For  should  be  ivait^   the  light,  some  time  of  day, 
fVould  come  and  sit  beside   him   in   his   door. 

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Thoughts  57 


The  world  is  full  of  judgment-days,  and  in  every 
assembly  that  a  man  enters,  in  every  action  he  at- 
tempts, he  is  gauged  and  stamped.  A  man  passes  for 
what  he  is  worth.  —Emerson. 

Life  is  noble  in  proportion  to  the  nobleness  of  faith ; 
it  is  successful  in  proportion  to  the  fixedness  of  faith. 

— Joseph  Le  Conte. 

We  should  tell  ourselves  once  for  all  that  it  is  the 
first  duty  of  the  soul  to  become  as  happy,  complete,  in- 
dependent, and  great  as  lies  in  its  power. 

— Maurice  Materlinck. 

"Cold  and  reserved  natures  should  remember  that 
though  not  infrequently  flowers  may  be  found  be- 
neath the  snow,  it  is  chilly  work  to  dig  for  them,  and 
few  care  to  take  the  trouble." 

Whenever  we  send  out  loving  thought  in  generous 
profusion,  every  part  of  our  environment  echoes  back 
a  sweet  benediction.  —Henry  Wood. 

A  good  book,  whether  a  novel  or  not,  is  one  that 
leaves  you  farther  on  than  when  you  took  it  up.  If 
when  you  drop  it,  it  drops  you  down  in  the  same  old 
spot,  with  no  finer  outlook,  no  clearer  vision,  no  stim- 
ulated desires  for  that  which  is  better  and  higher,  it  is 
in  no  sense  a  good  book.  —Anna  Warner. 


58  Thoughts 


Silence  is  a  great  peacemaker.  —Longfellow. 

Each  act  of  humble  service  is  that  divine  touching 
of  the  ground  which  enables  one  to  get  the  spring 
whereby  he  leaps  to  greater  heights.     —R,  W.  Trine. 

Every  noble  life  leaves  the  fibre  of  it  interwoven 
forever  in  the  works  of  the  world.  —Ruskin. 

"It  is  no  use  running;  to  set  out  betimes  is  the 
main  point." 

One  ought  never  to  speak  of  the  faults  of  one's 
friends;  it  mutilates  them.  They  can  never  be  the 
same  afterward.  —Willi<im  D.  Howells. 

Whatever  betide,  every  misfortune  must  be  over- 
come by  enduring  it.  —Virgil. 

"Never  argue  with  a  man  who  talks  loud.  You 
couldn't  convince  him  in  a  thousand  years." 

The  new  science  perceives  that  instincts  and  aspira- 
tions in  the  mind  are  facts  of  nature  that  must  be  in- 
terpreted and  accounted  for  by  reason  as  truly  as  a 
stone  in  the  hand.  —Newell  Dwight  Hillis. 


Thoughts  59 


Work  and  love:  that  is  the  body  and  soul  of  the 
human  being.     Happy  he  where  they  are  one. 

— Auerhach. 

You  picture  to  yourself  the  beauty  of  bravery  and 
steadfastness.  And  then  some  little,  wretched,  dis- 
agreeable duty  comes  which  is  your  martyrdom,  the 
lamp  for  your  oil ;  and  if  you  do  not  do  it,  your  oil  is 
spilled.  —Phillips  Brooks, 

"Watch  the  thought  you  hold  for  the  neighbor  who 
is  yet  living  in  the  consciousness  of  truth  as  you  un- 
derstand it.  As  you  are  taught  of  the  Spirit,  so  will 
he  be  taught  in  the  way  best  adapted  to  him." 

Why  do  we  so  often  prefer  to  believe  in  the  neces- 
sity of  suffering  and  weakness  rather  than  in  the  pos- 
sibility of  strength  and  gladness?     — C.  B.  Newcomh. 

Great  powers  and  natural  gifts  do  not  bring  privi- 
leges to  their  possessor,  so  much  as  they  bring  duties. 

— Henry  Ward  Beecher, 

Every  day  should  have  some  part 
Free  for  the  Sabbath  of  the  heart. 

— Wordsworth. 

The  beautiful  is  as  useful  as  the  useful. 

— Victor  Hugo. 

The  higher  education  of  women  means  more  for  the 
future  than  all  conceivable  legislative  reforms.  Its  in- 
fluence does  not  stop  with  the  home. 

— David  Starr  Jordan. 


6o  Thoughts 


"It  is  not  the  spurt  at  the  start,  but  the  continued, 
unresting,  unhasting  advance  that  wins  the  day." 

That  which  is  past  is  gone  and  irrevocable,  and  wise 
men  have  enough  to  do  with  things  present  and  to 
come.  — Francis  Bacon. 

Whichever  way  the  wind  doth  blow 
Some  heart  is  glad  to  have  it  so ; 
Then  blow  it  east  or  blow  it  west. 
The  wind  that  blows,  that  wind  is  best. 

— Caroline  A.  Mason. 

A  lady's  dress  should  be  such  as  to  please  God,  not 
laying  aside  taste,  for  is  He  not  much  more  pleased 
when  His  children  look  well  than  otherwise?  I  have 
no  idea  that  Christ  was  negligent  of  his  dress.  His 
garment  was  one  counted  worthy  of  casting  lots  upon. 

— Mary   Lyon. 

Experience  shows  that  success  is  due  less  to  ability 
than  to  zeal.  The  winner  is  he  who  gives  himself  to 
his  work,  body  and  soul.  —Charles  Buxton, 

"The  smelter  bends  above  his  pot  of  silver 
Watching  its  restless  heavings  to  and  fro, 

'Till  ready  for  the  careful  coiner. 

His  face  reflected,  the  fused  metal  show." 


Thoughts  6i 


It  is  monotony  which  eats  the  heart  out  of  joy,  de- 
stroys the  buoyancy  of  the  spirit,  and  turns  hope  to 
ashes;  it  is  monotony  which  saps  the  vitaHty  of  the 
emotions ;  depletes  the  energy  of  the  will,  and  finally 
turns  the  miracle  of  daily  existence  into  dreary  com- 
monplace. And  monotony  has  its  roots,  not  in  our 
conditions,  but  in  ourselves. 

— Hamilton  Wright  Mahie. 

Begin,  therefore,  with  little  things.  Is  it  a  little  oil 
spilt  or  a  little  wine  stolen?  Say  to  yourself,  this  is 
the  price  paid  for  peace  and  tranquillity ;  and  nothing 
is  to  be  had  for  nothing.  And  when  you  call  your 
servant,  consider  that  it  is  possible  he  may  not  come 
at  your  call,  or,  if  he  does,  that  he  may  not  do  what 
you  wish.  But  it  is  not  at  all  desirable  for  him,  and 
very  undesirable  for  you,  that  it  should  be  in  his  power 
to  cause  you  any  disturbance.  —Epictetus. 

Let  us  never  forget  that  an  act  of  goodness  is  of 
itself  an  act  of  happiness.  No  reward  coming  after 
the  event  can  compare  with  the  sweet  reward  that  went 
with  it.  — Maurice  Materlinck. 

I  said,  "I  will  go  out  and  look  for  mine  enemies," 
and  that  day  I  found  no  friends.  Again,  I  said,  "I 
will  go  out  and  look  for  my  friends,"  and  that  day  I 
found  no  enemies.  — Gertrude  R.  Lewis. 


62  Thoughts 


Such  as  are  thy  habitual  thoughts,  such  also  will  be 
the  character  of  thy  mind,  for  the  soul  is  dyed  by  the 
thoughts.  — Marcus   Aurelius. 

Have  faithfulness  and  sincerity  as  first  principles. 

— Confucius. 

"If  you  will  call  your  'troubles*  'experiences,'  and 
remember  that  every  experience  develops  some  latent 
force  within  you,  you  will  grow  vigorous  and  happy, 
however  adverse  your  circumstances  may  seem  to  be." 

Wanting  to  have  a  friend  is  altogether  different 
from  wanting  to  be  a  friend.  The  former  is  a  mere 
natural  human  craving,  the  latter  is  the  life  of  Christ 
in  the  soul.  — /.  R.  Miller. 

When  we  cultivate  thoughts  of  strength  for  others, 
we  ourselves  grow  strong.  Habitual  thoughts  of 
peace  bring  us  tranquillity.  — C.  B.  Newcomh, 

All  high  happiness  has  in  it  some  element  of  love; 
all  love  contains  a  desire  for  peace.  One  immediate 
effect  of  new  happiness  is  to  make  us  turn  toward  the 
past  with  a  wish  to  straighten  out  its  difficulties,  heal 
its  breaches  and  forgive  its  wrongs. 

— James  Lane  Allen. 


Thoughts  63 


When  I  am  very  weary 

I  do  not  try  to  pray. 
I  only  shut  my  eyes,  and  wait 
To  hear  what  God  will  say. 
Such  rest  it  is  to  wait  for  Him 

As  comes  no  other  way. 

— Alice  E.  Worcester, 


64  Thoughts 


You  have  not  fulfilled  every  duty  unless  you  have 
fulfilled  that  of  being  pleasant.  —Charles  Buxton. 

We  do  a  great  deal  of  shirking  in  this  life  on  the 
ground  of  not  being  geniuses.         —Rose  E.  Cleveland. 

We  never  know  for  what  God  is  preparing  us  in 
His  schools — for  what  work  on  earth,  for  what  work 
in  the  hereafter.  Our  business  is  to  do  our  work 
well  in  the  present  place,  whatever  that  may  be. 

— Dr.  Lyman  Abbott. 

Health  is  the  first  of  all  liberties,  and  happiness 
gives  us  the  energy  which  is  the  basis  of  health. 

— Amiel's  Journal, 

Not  in  the  clamor  of  the  crowded  street. 
Nor  in  the  shouts  and  plaudits  of  the  throng, 
But  in  ourselves,  are  triumph  and  defeat. 

— Longfellow. 

Whatever  you  may  be  sure  of,  be  sure  of  this,  that 
you  are  dreadfully  like  other  people. 

— James  Russell  Lowell. 

There  is  a  dust  that  settles  on  the  heart  as  well  as 
that  which  rests  upon  the  ledge.  It  is  better  to  wear 
out  than  to  rust  out.  —S'tV  John  Lubbock. 

How  many  a  thing  which  we  cast  to  the  ground, 
when  others  pick  it  up  becomes  a  gem. 

— George  Meredith. 


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5^ 


UCCESS  in  life  is  a  matter  not  so  much 
of  talent  or  opportunity  as  of  concentra- 
tion and  perseverance. 

r.4 


Thoughts  65 


Sunshine  is  delicious,  rain  is  refreshing,  wind 
braces  up,  snow  is  exhilarating;  there  is  really  no 
such  thing  as  bad  weather,  only  different  kinds  of  good 
weather.  —Ruskin. 

A  haze  on  the  far  horizon 

The  infinite,  tender  sky ; 

The  ripe,  rich  tint  of  the  corn-fields. 

And  the  wild  geese  sailing  high ; 

And  all  over  upland  and  lowland 

The  charm  of  the  golden-rod, — 

Some  of  us  call  it  Autumn 

And  others  call  it  God.        — M.  H.  Carruth. 

I  built  a  chimney  for  a  comrade  old, 
I  did  the  service  not  for  hope  or  hire, 

And  then  I  traveled  on  in  winter's  cold ; 
Yet  all  the  day  I  glowed  before  the  fire. 

— Edwin  Markham. 

Flowers,  says  Ruskin,  seem  intended  for  the  solace 
of  ordinary  humanity.  Children  love  them;  quiet, 
tender,  contented,  ordinary  people  love  them  as  they 
grow;  they  are  the  cottager's  treasure;  and  in  the 
crowded  town  mark,  as  with  a  little  broken  fragment 
of  rainbow,  the  windows  of  the  workers  in  whose  heart 
rests  the  covenant  of  peace. 


66  Thoughts 


Great  privileges  never  go  save  in  company  with 
great  responsibilities.  —Hamilton   W.  Mahie. 

He  who  has  a  high  standard  of  living  and  thinking 
will  certainly  do  better  than  he  who  has  none  at  all. 

— Samuel  Smiles. 

You  will  find  as  you  look  back  upon  your  life  that 
the  moments  that  stand  out,  the  moments  when  you 
have  really  lived,  are  the  moments  when  you  have 
done  things  in  a  spirit  of  love.      —Henry  Drummond. 

And  let  him  go  where  he  will,  he  can  only  find  so 
much  beauty  or  worth  as  he  carries.  —Emerson. 

As  you  grow  ready  for  it,  somewhere  or  other  you 
will  find  what  is  needful  for  you — in  a  book,  or  a 
friend,  or,  best  of  all,  in  your  own  thoughts,  the  eter- 
nal thought  speaking  in  your  thought. 

— George  Macdonald. 

Be  thou  the  rainbow  to  the  storms  of  life ! 
The  evening  beam  that  smiles  the  clouds  away 
And  tints  to-morrow  with  prophetic  ray. 

— Byron. 

Displays  of  moral  excellence,  truths  set  forth  in 
living  actions,  are  multiplied  as  they  are  shown.  Men 
are  won  by  what  they  approve.  They  are  led  to  imi- 
tate what  they  admire.  Laudable  actions  never  stand 
alone.  They  go  from  eye  to  eye,  from  heart  to  heart, 
creating  fresh  copies  of  their  immortal  worth. 

— Dr.  Frothingham. 


Thoughts  67 


Wouldst  shape  a  noble  life  ?    Then  cast 
No  backward  glances  toward  the  past, 
And  though  somewhat  be  lost  and  gone, 
Yet  do  thou  act  as  one  new-born  ; 
What  each  day  needs,  that  shalt  thou  ask, 
Each  day  will  set  its  proper  task. 

— Goethe, 


68  Thoughts 


We  should  think  just  as  though  our  thought  were 
visible  to  all  about  us.  Real  character  is  not  outward 
conduct,  but  quality  of  thinking.  —Henry  Wood, 

It  is  a  much  shallower  and  more  ignoble  occupation 
to  detect  faults  than  to  discover  beauties.       —Carlyle, 

Whatever  you  wish  to  accomplish,  be  willing  to  do, 
and  to  commence  your  work  at  once,  right  where  you 
find  yourself,  and  decide  that  you  do  not  want  any- 
thing better  to  begin  with  than  the  conditions  that 
surround  you,  for  God  is  with  you.  —Raja  Yoga, 

No  one  is  respectable  who  is  not  doing  his  best. 

— Horace  Fletcher, 

The  broad-minded  see  the  truth  in  different  re- 
ligions; the  narrow-minded  see  only  their  differences. 

— Chinese  Proverb. 

The  dawn  is  not  distant. 
Nor  is  the  night  starless; 

Love  is  eternal! 
God  is  still  God,  and 
His  faith  shall  not  fail  us ; 

Christ  is  eternal !  —Longfellow, 

Let  us  be  like  the  bird  for  a  moment  perched 

On  a  frail  branch  while  he  sings ; 
Though  he  feels  it  bend,  yet  he  sings  his  song, 

Knowing  that  he  hath  wings.     —Victor  Hugo, 


Thoughts  69 


Let  us  love  so  well 
Our  work  shall  still  be  sweeter  for  our  love. 
And  still  our  love  be  sweeter  for  our  work. 

— Elizabeth  Barrett  Browning, 

"If  you  have  gracious  words  to  say 
Oh,  give  them  to  our  hearts  to-day, 
But  if  your  words  will  cause  us  sorrow. 
Pray  keep  them  till  the  last  to-morrow." 

High  thoughts  and  noble  in  all  lands 
Help  me :  my  soul  is  fed  by  such. 
But  ah,  the  touch  of  life  and  hands. 

The  human  touch ! 
Warm,  vital,  close,  lifers  symbols  dear, 
These  need  I  most,  and  now,  and  here. 

--Richard  Burton, 


70  Thoughts 


To  live  in  the  presence  of  great  truths  and  eternal 
lawSj  to  be  led  by  permanent  ideals, — that  is  what 
keeps  a  man  patient  when  the  world  ignores  him,  and 
calm  and  unspoiled  when  the  world  praises  him. 

— Dr.  A.  Peabody. 

The  test  of  an  enjoyment  is  the  remembrance  which 
it  leaves  behind.  -—Jean  Paul. 

No  education  is  complete,  nor,  indeed,  of  great  per- 
manent value,  that  does  not  teach  how  to  live  con- 
tentedly and  to  economize  nerve  energy. 

— Mary  Roberts  Smith. 

I  have  seen  manners  that  make  a  similar  impression 
with  personal  beauty,  that  give  us  the  like  exhilara- 
tion, and  refine  us  like  that.  But  they  must  be  marked 
by  fine  perception,  they  must  always  show  self-con- 
trol.   Then  they  must  be  inspired  by  the  good  heart. 

— Emerson. 

Patience!  have  faith  and  thy  prayer  will  be  an- 
swered. —Longfellow. 

"Sentiment  cannot  do  duty  for  humanity." 

The  life  of  a  man  consists  not  in  seeing  visions  and 
in  dreaming  dreams,  but  in  active  charity  and  in  will- 
ing service.  ^Longfellow. 


Thoughts  71 


We  find  in  life  exactly  what  we  put  into  it. 

— Emerson. 

Every  duty  we  omit  oDscures  some  truth  we  should 
have  known.  —Ruskin. 

From  Socrates  to  Browning  the  thinkers  and  poets 
have  all  been  emancipators.  In  the  end,  this  bringing 
of  new  light  into  the  minds  of  the  world  will  be 
counted  their  chief  service.        —Hamilton  W.  Mabie. 

By  all  means  use  sometimes  to  be  alone. 
Salute  thyself :  see  what  thy  soul  doth  wear. 
Dare  to  look  in  thy  chest — for  'tis  thine  own, — 
And  tumble  up  and  down  what  thou  findest  there. 
Who  cannot  rest  till  he  good  fellows  finde, 
He  breaks  up  house,  turns  out  of  doors  his  minde. 

— George  Herbert. 

Personal  happiness  is  almost  synonymous  with  per- 
sonal interests;  the  wider  the  range  of  the  latter,  the 
higher  is  the  degree  of  happiness.       —Lilian  Whiting. 

Thoughts  of  courage,  and  hope,  and  highest  expec- 
tation growing  habitual,  may  lift  out  and  up  many  a 
weary  pilgrim.  — L.  Purington. 

"The  ornaments  of  a  home  are  the  guests  who  fre- 
quent it." 


72  Thoughts 


Do  not  waste  a  minute — not  a  second — in  trying  to 
demonstrate  to  others  the  merit  of  your  own  perform- 
ance. If  your  work  does  not  vindicate  itself,  you  can- 
not vindicate  it.  —Thomas  Wentworth  Higginson. 

To  go  about  moping,  depressed,  blue,  out  of  spirits 
in  general,  is  to  exist,  but  not  to  live.  It  is  the  condi- 
tion of  a  mollusk,  and  unworthy  a  human  being. 
Worry  is  a  state  of  spiritual  corrosion.  A  trouble 
either  can  be  remedied,  or  it  cannot.  If  it  can  be, 
then  set  about  it ;  if  it  cannot  be,  dismiss  it  from  your 
consciousness,  or  bear  it  so  bravely  that  it  may  become 
transfigured  to  a  blessing.  —Lilian  Whiting, 

"It  is  easy  enough  to  be  pleasant 

When  life  flows  by  like  a  song, 
But  the  man  worth  while  is  the  man  who  will  smile 

When  everything  goes  dead  wrong ; 
For  the  test  of  the  heart  is  trouble. 

And  it  always  comes  with  years. 
And  the  smile  that  comes  with  the  praises  of  earth 

Is  the  smile  that  shines  through  tears." 

I  think  we  should  treat  our  minds  as  innocent  chil- 
dren whose  guardian  we  are — ^be  careful  what  ob- 
jects and  what  subjects  we  thrust  on  their  attention. 

— Henry  D.  Thoreau. 


Thoughts  73 


Gather  roses  while  they  blossom;  to-morrow  is  not 
to-day  1  Allow  no  moment  to  escape;  to-morrow  is 
not  to-day,  —Gleim. 

Cheapness  of  nature  can  be  redeemed  only  from  one 
source — that  of  the  invisible  power  on  the  divine  side 
of  life-  By  seeking  this  in  silence  and  concentration 
for  a  little  time  each  day  all  refinement  and  loveliness 
and  charm  can  be  achieved.  It  is  the  magic  of  life. 
— The  World  Beautiful,  Lilian  Whiting, 

I  have  wished  to  teach  a  single  lesson,  true  alike  to 
all  men — the  lesson  of  the  saving  of  time. 

— David  Starr  Jordan. 

There  are  so  many  things — ^best  things — that  can 
only  come  when  youth  is  past,  that  it  may  well  hap- 
pen to  many  of  us  to  find  ourselves  happier  and  hap- 
pier to  the  last.  —George  Eliot, 

This  world  is  no  blot  for  us 
Nor  blank ;  it  means  intensely,  and  means  good. 

— Browning, 

Poetry  frequents  and  keeps  habitable  those  upper 
chambers  of  the  mind  that  open  toward  the  sun's 
rising.  —James  Russell  Lowell, 


74  Thoughts 


The  individual  who  cultivates  grievances,  and  who 
is  perpetually  exacting  explanations  of  his  assumed 
wrongs,  can  only  be  ignored,  and  left  to  the  education 
of  time  and  of  development.  .  .  .  One  does  not 
argue  or  contend  with  the  foul  miasma  that  settles  over 
stagnant  water;  one  leaves  it  and  climbs  to  a  higher 
region,  where  the  air  is  pure  and  the  sunshine  fair. 

— Lilian  Whiting. 

"Manners  must  adorn  knowledge,  and  smooth  its 
iway  through  the  world." 

Let  not  future  things  disturb  thee,  for  thou  wilt 
come  to  them  if  it  shall  be  necessary,  having  with  thee 
the  same  reason  which  thou  now  usest  for  present 
things.  ^Marcus  Aurelius. 

We  hear  much  said  of  "environment."  We  need 
to  realize  that  environment  should  never  be  allowed  to 
make  the  man,  but  that  man  should  always,  and  always 
can,  condition  the  environment.  When  we  realize  this, 
we  will  find  that  many  times  it  is  not  necessary  to  take 
ourselves  out  of  any  particular  environment,  because 
we  may  yet  have  a  work  to  do  there ;  but  by  the  very 
force  we  carry  with  us,  we  can  so  affect  and  change 
matters  that  we  will  have  an  entirely  new  set  of  conr 
ditions  in  an  old  environment. 

—Ralph   Waldo   Trine, 


Thoughts  75 


FABLE. 

The  mountain  and  the  squirrel 

Had  a  quarrel, 

And  the  former  called  the  latter  "Little  Prig"; 

Bun  replied, 

"You  are  doubtless  very  big ; 

But  all  sorts  of  things  and  weather 

Must  be  taken  in  together, 

To  make  up  a  year 

And  a  sphere. 

And  I  think  it  no  disgrace 

To  occupy  my  place. 

If  I'm  not  so  large  as  you, 

You  are  not  so  small  as  I, 

And  not  half  so  spry. 

I'll  not  deny  you  make 

A  very  pretty  squirrel  track ; 

Talents  differ;  all  is  well  and  wisely  put; 

If  I  cannot  carry  forests  on  my  back, 

Neither  can  you  crack  a  nut."  —Emerson, 


76  Thoughts 


O  the  paralyzing  effect  of  fear  of  evil!  It  surely 
doth  make  "cowards  of  us  all."  It  makes  us  pygmies 
where  we  might  be  giants,  were  we  only  free  from  it. 

— H.  Emilie  Cady. 

As  you  grow  old,  guard  against  the  tendency  to 
live  more  coarsely,  to  relax  in  your  discipline.  Obey 
your  finest  instincts.  Be  fastidious  to  the  extreme  of 
sanity.  ^Thoreau. 

"Then  let  us  smile  when  skies  are  gray, 
And  laugh  at  stormy  weather. 
And  sing  life's  lonesome  times  away : 
So  worry  and  the  dreariest  day 
Will  find  an  end  together." 

Character  is  not  only  written  in  the  face,  expressed 
in  conduct  and  language,  but  is  sent  forth  as  a  thought 
atmosphere.  ^Dresser. 

Others  shall 
Take  patience,  courage,  to  their  heart  and  hand 
From  thy  hand  and  thy  heart  and  thy  brave  cheer. 
And  God's  grace  fructify  through  thee  to  all. 

— Elisabeth  Barrett  Browning, 

To  love  one  soul  for  its  beauty  and  grace  and  truth 
is  to  open  the  way  to  appreciate  all  beautiful  and  true 
and  gracious  souls,  and  to  recognize  spiritual  beauty 
wherever  it  is  seen.  — H.  Black. 


Thoughts  77 


We  must  alter  for  the  better  always  and  unceas- 
ingly. Nature  seems  to  be  at  rest  only  because  she  is 
perpetually  renewed.  The  soul  enjoys  repose  on  the 
same  terms.  — De  Ravignon. 

God  gives  us  power  to  bear  all  the  sorrows  of  His 
making:  but  He  does  not  give  the  power  to  bear  the 
sorrows  of  our  own  making,  which  the  anticipation  of 
sorrow  most  assuredly  is  —-Ian  MacLaren, 

Ever  laughs  the  sunlight  in  our  eyes  at  morning  and 

at  noon, 
Comes  the  pure,  cool  wind,  to  whisper  past  our  cheek 

its  cheery  tune, 
Just  to  tell  us  Earth  is  beautiful,  and  at  the  quiet  even 
Every  star  looks  down  lest  we  forget  that  earth  is 

crowned  with  Heaven.  — £.  R,  Sill. 

"The  whole  world  unites  in  pushing  us  the  way  we 
have  really  made  up  our  mind  to  go." 

Without  distinction,  without  calculation,  without 
procrastination,  love.  Lavish  it  upon  the  poor,  where 
it  is  very  easy;  especially  upon  the  rich,  who  often 
need  it  most ;  most  of  all  upon  our  equals,  where  it  is 
very  difficult,  and  for  whom  perhaps  we  each  do  least 
of  all.  —  Henry  Drumtnond 


78  Thoughts 


Are  you  in  earnest  ?     Seize  this  very  minute ! 
What  you  can  do,  or  think  you  can,  begin  it ! 

— Goethe. 

T  is  better  to  live  rich  than  to  die  rich, 

— Dr.  Johnson. 

It  seems  to  me  there  is  no  maxim  for  a  noble  life 
like  this:  Count  always  your  highest  moments  your 
truest  moments.  Believe  that  in  the  time  when  you 
were  the  greatest  and  most  spiritual  man,  then  you 
were  your  truest  self.  —Phillips  Brooks. 

Fine  society  is  the  graceful,  genial,  sympathetic 
intercourse  of  fine  souls.  —Lilian  Whiting. 

The  stream  of  content  must  flow  from  ourselves, 
taking  its  source  from  a  deliberate  disposition  to  learn 
what  is  good,  and  a  determined  resolution  to  seek  for 
and  enjoy  it,  however  small  the  portion  may  be. 

— Zimmerman. 

When  you  have  a  number  of  disagreeable  duties 
to  perform,  always  do  the  most  disagreeable  first. 

— Josiah  Quincy. 

God  says,  live  deeply,  earnestly  in  the  present,  and 
the  spirit  of  all  the  ages  shall  come  and  reveal  itself 
to  you.  —Phillips  Brooks. 


Thoughts  70 


To  try  too  hard  to  make  people  good  is  one  way  to 
make  them  worse.  The  only  way  to  make  them  good, 
is  to  be  good,  remembering  well  the  beam  and  the 
mote.  — George  Macdonald. 

"Ask  God  to  give  thee  skill 

For  comfort's  art, 
That  thou  may'st  consecrated  be. 

And  set  apart 
Unto  a  life  of  sympathy ! 
For  comforters  are  needed  much 

Of  Christ-like  touch." 

For  he  that  wrongs  his  friend 
Wrongs  himself  more,  and  ever  bears  about 
A  silent  court  of  justice  in  his  breast. 
Himself  the  judge  and  jury,  and  himself 
The  prisoner  at  the  bar,  ever  condemned. 

— Tennyson. 

The  sense  of  humor  is  the  oil  of  life's  engine.  With- 
out it,  the  machinery  creaks  and  grroans.  No  lot  is  so 
hard,  no  aspect  of  things  is  so  grim,  but  it  relaxes  be- 
fore a  hearty  laugh.  — G.  S.  Merriam. 

The  happiest  heart  that  ever  beat 

Was  in  some  quiet  breast, 
That  found  the  common  daylight  sweet 

And  left  to  Heaven  the  rest. 

— John  Vance  Cheney. 


8o  Thoughts 


"Of  all  work,"  said  the  Bishop  of  Exeter,  "that 
produces  results,  nine-tenths  must  be  drudgery.  There 
is  no  work,  from  the  highest  to  the  lowest,  which  can 
be  done  well  by  any  man  who  is  unwilling  to  make 
that  sacrifice." 

It  is  a  hard  thing  to  close  up  a  discourse  and  to 
cut  it  short,  when  you  are  once  in,  and  have  a  great 
deal  more  to  say.  There  is  nothing  wherein  the 
strength  and  breeding  of  a  horse  is  so  much  seen  as  in 
a  round,  graceful,  and  sudden  stop.        —Montaigne. 

Greatly  begin!  though  thou  have  time 
But  for  a  line,  be  that  sublime — 
Not  failure,  but  low  aim,  is  crime. 

— James  Russell  Lowell. 

Can  anything  be  sadder  than  work  left  unfinished? 
Yes;  work  never  begun.  —Christina  Rossetti. 

When  we  feel  a  strong  desire  to  thrust  our  advice 
on  others,  it  is  usually  because  we  suspect  their  weak- 
ness ;  but  we  ought  rather  to  suspect  our  own. 

— Colt  on. 

Sorrow  is  the  mere  rust  of  the  soul.  Activity  will 
cleanse  and  brighten  it.  —Dr.  Johnson. 


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ET  us  be  of  good  cheer,  rememhering  that 
the  misfortunes  hardest  to  bear  are  those 
•which   never  come. 


Thoughts  8i 


Efforts  to  be  permanently  useful,  must  be  uniformly 
joyous — a  spirit  all  sunshine — ^graceful  from  very 
gladness,  beautiful  because  bright.  —Carlyle, 

Read  the  philosophers,  and  learn  how  to  make  life 
happy;  seeking  useful  precepts  and  brave  and  noble 
words  which  may  become  deeds.  -Seneca. 

"I  pray  the  prayer  of  Pluto  old ; 

God  make  thee  beautiful  within, 
And  let  thine  eye  the  good  behold 
In  everything  save  sin." 

Nothing  is  so  strong  as  gentleness,  nothing  so  gen- 
tle as  real  strength.  — 5"^.  Francis  de  Sales. 

Oh!  square  thyself  for  use;  a  stone  that  may 
Fit  in  the  wall  is  left  not  in  the  way. 

— R.  C.  French. 

The  best  piece  of  good  fortune  which  can  come 
to  one  is  opportunity  for  intimacy  with  a  leader,  in 
whatever  line  of  life  he  may  be  engaged. 

• — Edward  Everett  Hale. 

God  has  delivered  yourself  to  your  care,  and  says: 
"I  had  no  fitter  to  trust  than  you."  ^Epictetus. 


82  Thoughts 


I  gazed  on  the  throng  of  hurrying  faces, 
Some  in  tatters  and  some  in  laces, 
And  I  said  to  myself,  "How  will  it  be, 
When  the  soul  of  each  is  at  last  set  free?*' 

For  she  who  is  plainest  and  most  forlorn. 
May,  by  her  beauty,  God's  heaven  adorn; 
While  she  who  is  fairest  of  form  and  face, 
May,  near  God's  beautiful,  look  out  of  place. 

So  I  said,  "How,  my  soul,  will  it  be  with  thee?" 

— Laura  Barker. 


Thoughts  83 


Half  the  world  is  on  the  wrong  scent  in  the  pur- 
suit of  happiness.  They  think  it  consists  in  having  and 
getting,  and  in  being  served  by  others.  It  consists  in 
giving  and  in  serving  others.     --Henry  Drummond. 

What  we  like  determines  what  we  are,  and  is  the 
sign  of  what  we  are;  and  to  teach  taste  is  inevitably 
to  form  character.  —Ruskin, 

One  feast  of  holy  days  the  crest 
I,  though  no  Churchman,  love  to  keep; 

All-Saints — the  unkncwn  good  that  rest 
In  God's  still  memory  folded  deep. 

— Lowell. 

Doing  nothing  for  others  is  the  undoing  of  ourselves. 

— Horace  Mann. 

Of  nothing  may  we  be  more  sure  than  this,  that 
if  we  cannot  sanctify  our  present  lot,  we  could  sanctify 
no  other.  Our  heaven  and  our  Almighty  Father  are 
there  or  nowhere.  —Dr.  James  Martineau. 

"Whether  in  large  or  small  affairs,  there  must  be 
perpetual  adjustment.  Neither  men  nor  women,  more 
than  our  finely  strung  musical  instruments  can  escape 
the  need  of  constant  tuning." 


84  Thoughts 


As  nothing  reveals  character  like  the  company  we 
like  and  keep,  so  nothing  foretells  futurity  like  the 
thoughts  over  which  we  brood. 

— Newell  Dwight  Hillis. 

Simply  do  the  best  you  know,  then  trust.  He  who 
seeks  to  live  by  the  Spirit  and  who  cares  above  all 
for  that,  will  not  be  without  guidance. 

— Horatio  W.  Dresser. 

Though  to-day  may  not  fulfill 

All  thy  hopes,  have  patience  still; 

For  perchance  to-morrow's  sun 

Sees  thy  happier  day  begun.      — F.  Gerhardt. 

There  are  beautiful  things  far  out  in  the  years: 
Can  we  not  bear  bravely  some  burdens  and  fears  ? 
— From  Dream  Land  Sent,  Lilian  Whiting. 

The  years 
Have  taught  some  sweet,  some  bitter  lessons,  non© 
Wiser  than  this,  to  spend  in  all  things  else, 
But  of  old  friends  to  be  most  miserly.       —Lowell. 

"It  is  better  to  endure  all  the  frowns  and  anger  of 
the  greatest  on  earth,  than  to  have  an  uneasy  con- 
science within  our  breast.  O,  let  the  bird  in  the  soul 
be  always  kept  singing  whatsoever  one  may  suffer." 


Thoughts  85 


The  men  and  women  that  are  lifting  the  world 
upward  and  onward  are  those  who  encourage  more 
than  criticise.  —Elisabeth  Harrison. 

I  ought  not  to  pronounce  judgment  on  a  fellow 
creature  until  I  know  all  that  enters  into  his  life ;  until 
I  can  measure  all  the  forces  of  temptation  and  resist- 
ance; until  I  can  give  full  weight  to  all  the  facts  in 
the  case.  In  other  words,  I  am  never  in  a  position 
to  judge  another.  —Hamilton  W,  Mabie, 

What  I  am  thinking  and  doing  day  by  day  is  re- 
sistlessly  shaping  my  future — a  future  in  which  there 
is  no  expiation  except  through  my  own  better  conduct. 
No  one  can  save  me.  No  one  can  live  my  life  for  me. 
If  I  am  wise  I  shall  begin  to-day  to  build  my  own 
truer  and  better  world  from  within. 

—H.  W,  Dresser. 

I  am  an  enemy  to  long  explanation;  they  deceive 
either  the  maker  or  the  hearer^  generally  both. 

— Goethe. 

He  who  is  false  to  present  duty,  breaks  a  thread 
in  the  loom,  and  will  find  a  flaw,  when  he  may  have 
forgotten  the  cause.  —Henry   Ward  Beecher. 


86  Thoughts 


"When  the  outlook  is  not  good,  try  the  uplook." 

Every  advance  we  make  toward  the  reaHzation  of  the 
truth  of  the  permanence  and  immanence  of  law,  brings 
us  nearer  to  Him,  who  is  the  First  Cause  of  all  law 
and  all  phenomena.  —David  Starr  Jordan. 

When  in  the  mid-day  march  we  meet 
The  outstretched  shadows  of  the  night. 

The  promise,  how  divinely  sweet, 
"At  eventide,  it  shall  be  light." 

— Alice  Cary. 

You  are  never  to  complain  of  your  birth,  your 
training,  your  employments,  your  hardships;  never  to 
fancy  that  you  could  be  something  if  only  you  had  a 
different  lot  and  sphere  assigned  you.  God  under- 
stands his  own  plan,  and  He  knows  what  you  want  a 
great  deal  better  than  you  do  yourself.  —H.  Bushnell. 

Soar  on  and  up,  it's  God  projecting  as  it  goes, 
Expanding  into  love  and  joy  and  peace — but  not  re- 
pose. —W.  W.  Story. 

"If  you  would  have  a  happy  family  life,  remember 
two  things :  in  matters  of  principle,  stand  like  a  rock ; 
in  matters  of  taste,  swim  with  the  current." 


Thoughts  87 


Leam  not  only  by  a  comet's  rush,  but  by  a  rose's 
blush.  — Browning. 

When  the  Kingdom  is  once  found,  life  ceases  to  be 
a  plodding,  and  becomes  an  exaltation,  an  ecstasy,  a 
joy.  —R.  W.   Trine. 

Immortality  will  come  to  such  as  are  fit  for  it ;  and 
he  who  would  be  a  great  soul  in  the  future  must  be  a 
great  soul  now.  —Emerson. 

There  is  no  kind  of  bondage  which  life  lays  upon  us 
that  may  not  yield  both  sweetness  and  strength;  and 
nothing  reveals  a  man's  character  more  fully  than  the 
spirit  in  which  he  bears  his  limitations. 

— Hamilton  W,  Mabie, 

The  vision  of  things  to  be  done  may  come  a  long 
time  before  the  way  of  doing  them  appears  clear.  But 
woe  to  him  who  distrusts  the  vision. 

— Jenkin  Lloyd  Jones, 

"Every  day  is  a  fresh  beginning, 

Listen,  my  soul,  to  the  glad  refrain; 
And,  spite  of  old  sorrow  and  older  sinning, 
Take  heart  with  the  day  and  begin  again." 

In  order  to  manage  children  well,  we  must  borrow 
their  eyes  and  their  hearts,  see  and  feel  as  they  do,  and 
judge  them  from  their  own  point  of  view. 

I  pray  God  to  make  parents  reasonable. 

— Eugenie  de  Guerin, 


88  Thoughts 


The  finest  culture  comes  from  the  study  of  men  m 
their  best  moods.  ^Plutarch. 

Far  away  there  in  the  sunshine  are  my  highest  as- 
pirations; I  cannot  reach  them,  but  I  can  look  up  and 
see  their  beauty,  believe  in  them,  and  try  to  follow 
where  they  lead.  —Louisa  May  Alcott. 

No  power  in  society,  no  hardship  in  your  condition 
can  depress  you,  keep  you  down,  in  knowledge,  power, 
virtue,  influence,  but  by  your  own  consent. 

— Channing. 

Contentment  comes  neither  by  culture  nor  by  wish- 
ing; it  is  reconciliation  with  our  lot,  growing  out  of 
an  inward  superiority  to  our  surroundings. 

— Rev.  J.  K.  McLean. 

At  times  it  is  only  necessary  to  rest  one's  self  in 
silence  for  a  few  minutes,  in  order  to  take  off  the 
pressure  and  become  wonderfully  refreshed. 

— Dresser. 

Touchiness,  when  it  becomes  chronic,  is  a  morbid 
condition  of  the  inward  disposition. 

It  is  self-love  inflamed  to  the  acute  point. 

— Drummond. 

It  is  not  written,  blessed  is  he  that  feedeth  the  poor, 
but  he  that  considereth  the  poor.  A  little  thought  and 
a  little  kindness  are  often  worth  more  than  a  great 
deal  of  money.  ^Ruskin. 


Thoughts  89 


For  life,  with  all  its  yields  of  joy  and  woe 
And  hope  and  fear, — believe  the  aged  friend,— 

Is  just  our  chance  o'  the  prize  of  learning  love ; 
How  love  might  be,  hath  been  indeed,  and  is ; 

And  that  we  hold  henceforth  to  the  uttermost 
Such  prize  despite  the  envy  of  the  world. 

And  having  gained  truth,  keep  truth,  that  is  all. 

— Robert  Browning, 


90  Thoughts 


Oh,  do  not  pray  for  easy  lives.  Pray  to  be  stronger 
men!  Do  not  pray  for  tasks  equal  to  your  powers. 
Pray  for  powers  equal  to  your  tasks !  Then  the  doing 
of  your  work  shall  be  no  miracle.  But  you  shall  be 
a  miracle.  Every  day  you  shall  wonder  at  yourself, 
at  the  richness  of  life  which  has  come  in  you  by  the 
grace  of  God.  —Phillips  Brooks, 

What  does  your  anxiety  do?  It  does  not  empty 
to-morrow,  brother,  of  its  sorrow;  but  ah!  it  empties 
to-day  of  its  strength.  It  does  not  make  you  escape 
the  evil;  it  makes  you  unfit  to  cope  with  it  if  it 
comes.  —Ian  MacLaren. 

If  you  wish  to  be  miserable,  think  about  yourself, 
about  what  you  want,  what  you  like,  what  respect  peo- 
ple ought  to  pay  you ;  and  then  to  you  nothing  will  be 
pure.  You  will  spoil  everything  you  touch,  you  will 
make  misery  for  yourself  out  of  everything  which  God 
sends  you :  you  will  be  as  wretched  as  you  choose. 

— Charles  Kingsley, 

But  on  God*s  dial-plate  of  time, 

*Tis  never  late  to  him  who  stands 
Self-centred  in  a  trust  sublime, 

With  mastered  force  and  thinking  hands. 

— Minot  /.  Savage, 

"Look  for  the  light  that  the  shadow  proves." 


Thoughts  91 


Oh,  the  little  birds  sang  East, 

and  the  little  birds  sang  West, 
And  I  smiled  to  think  God's 

greatness  flowed  around  our  incompleteness. 
Round  our  restlessness.  His  rest. 

— E.  B.  Browning. 

Be  thrifty,  but  not  covetous :  therefore  give 

Thy  need,  thine  honor,  and  thy  friend  his  due. 

Never  was  scraper  brave  man.     Get  to  live; 

Then  live,  and  use  it :  else  it  is  not  true 
That  thou  hast  gotten.     Surely  use  alone 
Makes  money  not  a  contemptible  stone. 

— George  Herbert. 

"I  do  not  deem  that  it  matters  not 

How  you  live  your  life  below ; 
It  matters  much  to  the  heedless  crowd 

That  you  see  go  to  and  fro; 
For  all  that  is  noble  and  high  and  good 

Has  an  influence  on  the  rest. 
And  the  world  is  better  for  everyone 

Who  is  living  at  his  best." 

Let  us  beware  of  losing  our  enthusiasm.  Let  us 
ever  glory  in  something,  and  strive  to  attain  our  ad- 
miration for  all  that  would  ennoble,  and  our  interest 
in  all  that  would  enrich  and  beautify  our  life. 

—Phillips  Brooks. 


92  Thoughts 


A  high  purpose  is  magnetic  and  attracts  rich  re- 
sources. —Lilian  Whiting. 

Be  firm :  one  certain  element  in  luck 
Is  genuine,  solid  old  Teutonic  pluck. 

— Oliver  Wendell  Holmes, 

Not  only  to  say  the  right  thing  in  the  right  place, 
but  far  more  difficult  still,  to  leave  unsaid  the  wrong 
thing  at  the  tempting  moment. 

— George  Augustus  Sola, 

It  is  astonishing  what  a  lot  of  odd  minutes  one  can 
catch  during  the  day,  if  one  really  sets  about  it. 

— Dinah  Maria  Mulock, 

So  I  will  trudge  with  heart  elate, 

And  feet  with  courage  shod, 
For  that  which  men  call  chancy  and  fate 

Is  the  handiwork  of  God.  —Alice  Gary. 

"This  world  is  a  difficult  world  indeed. 
And  people  are  hard  to  suit. 
And  the  man  who  plays  on  the  violin 
Is  a  bore  to  the  man  with  a  flute." 

No  man  can  be  provident  of  his  time  who  is  not 
prudent  in  the  choice  of  his  company. 

— Jeremy  Taylor, 


Thoughts  93 


Every  great  man  is  always  being  helped  by  every- 
body ;  for  his  gift  is  to  get  good  out  of  all  things  and 
all  persons.  —Ruskin. 

Belief  in  compensation,  or  that  nothing  is  got  for 
nothing,  characterizes  all  valuable  minds. 

— Emerson. 

Never  shrink  from  anything  which  your  business 
calls  you  to  do.  The  man  who  is  above  his  business 
may  one  day  find  his  business  above  him.       —Drew, 

The  common  problem,  yours,  mine,  every  one's. 
Is  not  to  fancy  what  were  fair  in  life. 
Provided  it  could  be — but  finding  first 
What  may  be,  then  find  how  to  make  it  fair 
Up  to  our  means.  —Browning. 

Every  life  that  has  God  in  it  has  the  index  to  char- 
acter and  the  key  to  the  highest  attainment. 

— L.  Purington, 

Be  resolutely  and  faithfully  what  you  are ;  be  humbly 
what  you  aspire  to  be.  Man's  noblest  gift  to  man  is 
his  sincerity,  for  it  embraces  his  integrity  also. 

— Henry  D.  Thoreau. 


94  Thoughts 


We  often  do  more  good  by  our  sympathy  than  by 
our  labors.  — Canon  Farrar. 

Dost  thou  love  life  ?  Then  waste  not  time ;  for  time 
is  the  stuff  that  life  is  made  of.    —Benjamin  Franklin. 

The  best  way  of  training  the  young,  is  to  train  your- 
self at  the  same  time ;  not  to  admonish  them,  but  to  be 
seen  always  doing  that  of  which  you  would  admon- 
ish them.  —Plato. 

It  is  a  good  and  safe  rule  to  sojourn  in  every  place, 
as  if  you  meant  to  spend  your  life  there,  never  omit- 
ting an  opportunity  of  doing  a  kindness,  or  speaking  a 
true  word,  or  making  a  friend.  —Ruskin. 

Landor's  definition  of  a  great  man:  He  who  can 
call  together  the  most  select  company  when  it  pleases 
him. 

We  go  apart  to  get  still ;  that  new  life,  new  inspira- 
tion, new  power  of  thought,  new  supplies  from  the 
Fountainhead,  may  flow  in.  — //.  Emilie  Cady. 

Perhaps  it  is  a  good  thing  to  have  an  unsound  hobby 
ridden  hard ;  for  it  is  sooner  ridden  to  death. 

— Charles  Dickens. 


Thoughts  95 


"Take  a  dash  of  water  cold 

And  a  little  leaven  of  prayer, 
A  little  bit  of  sunshine  gold 

Dissolved  in  the  morning  air ; 
Add  to  your  meal  some  merriment 

And  a  thought  for  kith  and  kin; 
And  then,  as  a  prime  ingredient 

A  plenty  of  work  thrown  in : 
But  spice  it  all  with  the  essence  of  love 

And  a  little  whiff  of  play : 
Let  a  wise  old  book  and  a  glance  above 

Complete  a  well  spent  day." 


96  Thoughts 


Judge  not  thy  friend  until  thou  standest  in  his  place. 

—Rabbi  Hillel 

"He  who  is  always  inquiring  what  people  will  say, 
will  never  give  them  opportunity  to  say  anything  great 
about  him." 

Borrowing  is  the  canker  and  the  ^eath  of  every 
man's  estate.  —Sir  Walter  Raleigh. 

It  is  not  so  much  what  you  say  to  the  children  that 
charges  the  atmosphere  of  your  home,  as  it  is  the 
spirit  of  your  life,  the  temper  you  exhibit,  the  ends 
which  you  live  for.  —Dr.  J.  K.  McLean. 

Punishment  closely  follows  sin,  it  being  born  at  the 
same  time  with  it.  Whoever  expects  punishment,  al- 
ready suffers  it ;  whoever  has  deserved  it,  expects  it. 

— Montaigne. 

I  hope  I  shall  possess  firmness  and  virtue  enough  to 
maintain  what  I  consider  the  most  enviable  of  all 
titles,  that  of  an  "Honest  Man." 

— George  Washington. 

Trust  in  God,  as  Moses  did,  let  the  way  be  never  so 
dark;  and  it  shall  come  to  pass  that  your  life  at  last 
shall  surpass  even  your  longing.  Not,  it  may  be,  in 
the  line  of  that  longing;  that  shall  be  as  it  pleaseth 
God;  but  the  glory  is  as  sure  as  the  grace,  and  the 
most  ancient  heavens  are  not  more  sure  than  that. 

— Robert  Collyer. 


V 


A 


LL  service  ranks  the  same  with  God — 
There  is  no   last  or  first. 


Thodghts  97 


Men  suffer  all  their  life  long  under  the  foolish  su- 
perstition that  they  can  be  cheated.  But  it  is  as  im- 
possible for  a  man  to  be  cheated  by  anyone  but  him- 
self, as  for  a  thing  to  be  and  not  to  be  at  the  same 
time.  There  is  a  third  silent  party  to  all  our  bargains. 
The  nature  and  soul  of  things  takes  on  itself  the 
guaranty  of  the  fulfilment  of  every  contract,  so  that 
honest  service  cannot  come  to  loss.  If  you  serve  an 
ungrateful  master,  serve  him  the  more.  Put  God  in 
your  debt.  Every  stroke  shall  be  repaid.  The  longer 
the  payment  is  withholden,  the  better  for  you;  for 
compound  interest  on  compound  interest  is  the  rate 
and  usage  of  this  exchequer.  --Emerson. 

I  believe  if  we  could  only  see  beforehand  what  it  is 
that  our  Heavenly  Father  means  us  to  be,  the  soul 
beauty  and  perfection  and  glory,  the  glorious  and 
lovely  spiritual  body  that  this  soul  is  to  dwell  in 
through  all  eternity,  if  we  could  have  a  glimpse  of  this, 
we  should  not  grudge  all  the  trouble  and  pains  he  is 
taking  with  us  now  to  bring  us  up  to  that  ideal  which 
is  his  thought  of  us.  —Annie  Keary, 

Let  thy  every  word  and  act  be  perfect  truth,  ut- 
tered in  genuine  love.  Let  not  the  forms  of  business, 
or  the  conventional  arrangements  of  society  reduce  thee 
into  falsehood.  Be  true  to  thyself.  Be  true  to  thy 
friend.     Be  true  to  the  world.      —Lydia  Maria  Child. 


98  Thoughts 


Infidelity  to  self  is  infidelity  to  God. 

— Charles  B.  Newcomh. 

Learn  to  handle  and  control  the  ignorant  part  of 
your  being  as  you  would  watch  and  guide  a  child. 
Hold  thought  and  expression  to  your  highest  ideal. 
Learn  from  your  failure. 

— God's  Light  as  It  Came   to  Me. 

Self  reliance  is  the  basis  of  behavior,  as  it  is  the 
guaranty  that  the  powers  are  not  squandered  in  too 
much  demonstration.  —Emerson. 

For  not  in  far-off  realms  of  space 

The  Spirit  hath  its  throne ; 

In  every  heart  it  findeth  place 

And  waiteth  to  be  known.      — F.  L.  Hosmer, 

Difficulties  may  surround  our  path;  but  if  the  dif- 
ficulties be  not  in  ourselves,  they  may  generally  be 
overcome.  —Prof.  Jowett. 

Life  is  made  up,  not  of  great  sacrifices  or  duties,  but 
of  little  things,  in  which  smiles  and  kindnesses  and 
small  obligations,  given  habitually,  are  what  win  and 
preserve  the  heart  and  secure  comfort. 

— Sir  Humphrey  Davy. 


Thoughts  99 


He  that  respects  himself  is  safe  from  others ; 
He  wears  a  coat  of  mail  that  none  can  pierce. 

— Longfellow, 

Chilo,  having  had  the  question  put  to  him,  What  is 
difficult?  said:  "To  be  silent  about  secrets;  to  make 
good  use  of  one's  leisure ;  and  to  be  able  to  submit  to 
injustice." 

We  should  every  day  call  ourselves  to  an  account. 
What  infirmity  have  I  mastered  to-day?  What  temp- 
tation have  I  resisted?  What  virtue  acquired?  Our 
vices  will  abate  of  themselves  if  they  be  brought  every 
day  to  the  shrift,  —Seneca. 

Life  is  something,  while  the  senses  heed 

The  spirit's  call ; 
Life  is  nothing,  when  our  grosser  need 

Engulfs  it  all.  —Julia  Ward  Howe. 

The  true  spirit  of  conversation  consists  in  building 
on  another  man's  observation,  not  overturning  it. 

— Bulwer. 

Revery  is  the  Sunday  of  thought;  and  who  knows 
which  is  the  more  important  and  fruitful  for  man,  the 
laborious  tension  of  the  week,  or  the  life-giving  re- 
pose of  the  Sabbath?  —Amiel's  Journal. 


loo  Thoughts 


There  is  nothing  ridiculous  in  seeming  to  be  what 
you  really  are,  but  a  good  deal  in  affecting  to  be  what 
you  are  not.  —Sir  J.  Lubbock. 

In  life's  small  things  be  resolute  and  great 

To  keep  thy  muscles  trained :  knowest  thou  when  Fate 

Thy  measure  takes,  or  when  she'll  say  to  thee, 

"I  find  thee  worthy,  do  this  thing  for  me  ?" 

— Lowell. 

If  I  can  stop  one  heart  from  breaking, 

I  shall  not  live  in  vain. 
If  I  can  ease  one  life  the  aching. 

Or  cool  one  pain, 
Or  help  one  fainting  robin 

Unto  his   nest   again, 
I   shall   not  live  in  vain.     —Emily  Dickinson. 

I  know  of  no  more  encouraging  fact  than  the  un- 
questionable ability  of  a  man  to  elevate  his  life  by  a 
conscious  endeavor.  It  is  something  to  be  able  to 
paint  a  particular  picture,  or  to  carve  a  statue,  and  so 
make  a  few  objects  beautiful ;  but  it  is  far  more  glori- 
ous to  carve  and  paint  the  very  atmosphere  and  me- 
dium through  which  we  look,  which  morally  we  can  do. 

— Henry  D.  Thoreau. 


Thoughts  IDT 


Much  which  we  think  essential  is  merely  a  matter 
of  habit.  — Thomas  Wentworth  Higginson. 

The  royai  ioa<i  to  success  is  to  obey  the  inner  genius, 
to  act  in  accordance  with  one's  own  intuition,  regard- 
less of  the  fear  or  favor  of  those  who  are  bound  to  the 
wheel  of  conventional  consistency.     -^Lilian  Whiting. 

Act  well  at  the  moment,  and  you  have  performed  a 
good  action  for  all  eternity.  —Lavater, 

Nev/  occasions  teach  new  duties ; 

Time  makes  ancient  good  uncouth ; 
They  must  upward  still,  and  onward. 

Who  would  keep  abreast  of  truth. 

— James  Russell  Lowell, 

What  do  we  live  for  if  it  is  not  to  make  life  less 
difficult  to  each  other  ?  --George  Eliot, 

Good  to  forgive,  best  to  forget.  —Browning, 

What  reason  have  we  to  think  any  other  station  in 
the  universe  more  sanctifying  than  our  own?  There 
is  none,  so  far  as  we  can  tell,  under  the  more  imme- 
diate touch  of  God,  none  whence  sublimer  deeps  are 
open  to  adoration,  none  murmuring  with  the  whisper 
of  more  thrilling  affections  or  ennobled  as  the  theater 
of  more  glorious  duties.  Those  to  whom  the  earth 
is  not  consecrated  will  find  their  heaven  profane. 

— Dr.  James  Martineau, 


1 02  Thoughts 


Whoever  can  influence  men  should  strive  to  make 
them  more  courageous,  more  enduring,  more  hopeful, 
simpler,  more  joyful.  —Bishop  Spaulding. 

It  is  our  part  in  life  to  work  with  all  our  strength 
toward  the  realization  of  ideal  humanity,  to  add  one 
more  link  to  the  chain  which  joins  the  man-brute  of 
the  past,  through  the  man  of  the  present,  to  the  man 
of  the  future.  The  man  who  is  likest  Him,  we  have 
chosen  for  our  ideal.  —David  Starr  Jordan. 

My  own  experience  and  development  deepens  every 
day  my  conviction  that  our  moral  progress  may  be 
measured  by  the  degree  in  which  we  sympathize  with 
individual  suffering  and  individual  joy. 

— George  Eliot, 

"When  opposition  of  any  kind  is  necessary,  drop  all 
color  of  emotion  out  of  it  and  let  it  be  seen  in  the 
white  light  of  truth." 

The  true  use  of  a  man's  possessions  is  to  help  his 
work,  and  the  best  end  of  all  his  work  is  to  show  us 
what  he  is.  The  noblest  workers  of  our  world  be- 
queath us  nothing  so  great  as  the  image  of  themselves. 

— James  Martineau. 


Thoughts  103 


"What  is  the  secret  of  your  life?'*  asked  Mrs. 
Browning  of  Charles  Kingsley;  "tell  me,  that  I  may 
make  mine  beautiful  too?*'  He  replied,  "I  had  a 
friend."  —William  C.  Gannett. 

Better  make  penitents  by  gentleness  than  hypocrites 
by  severity.  —5*/.  Frances  de  Sales. 

Wondrous  is  the  strength  of  cheerfulness ;  altogether 
past  calculation  its  powers  of  endurance.      —Carlyle. 

Yea,  from  the  table  of  my  memory  I'll  wipe  away 
all  trivial  fond  records,  that  youth  and  observation 
copied  there;  and  thy  commandment  all  along  shall 
live  within  the  book  and  volume  of  my  brain,  unmixed 
with  baser  matter.  —Shakespeare. 

I  am  surprised  that  intelligent  men  do  not  see  the 
immense  value  of  good  temper  in  their  homes;  and 
3un  amazed  that  they  will  take  such  pains  to  have 
costly  houses  and  fine  furniture,  and  yet  sometimes 
neglect  to  bring  home  with  them  good  temper. 

— Theodore  Parker, 

Everyone  should  consider  his  body  as  a  priceless 
gift  from  one  whom  he  loves  above  all,  a  marvelous 
work  of  art,  of  indescribable  beauty,  and  mastery  be- 
yond human  conception,  and  so  delicate  that  a  word, 
a  breath,  a  look,  nay,  a  thought  may  injure  it. 

— Nikola  Tesla. 


I04  Thoughts 


Beware  of  desperate  steps ;  the  darkest  day, 
Lived  till  to-morrow,  will  have  passed  away. 

— Cow  per. 

Education  should  be  full  of  feeling.  It  takes  sun- 
light to  draw  out  the  fragrance  of  the  violet  and  the 
perfume  of  the  rose.  —Ellen  A.  Richardson. 

We  are  encompassed  about  by  the  forces  that  make 
for  righteousness.  All  power  we  possess,  or  seem  to 
possess,  comes  from  our  accord  with  these  forces. 
There  is  no  lasting  force,  except  the  power  of  God. 

— David  Starr  Jordan. 

If  one  admires  the  patience,  gentleness,  sweetness 
and  unfailing  energy  of  another;  if  he  finds  himself 
renewed  and  invigorated  and  inspired  by  such  contact, 
— why  does  he  not  himself  so  live  that  he  may  bring 
the  same  renewal  and  inspiration  to  others  ? 

— Lilian  Whiting. 

The  flighty  purpose  never  is  overtook 
Unless  the  deed  go  with  it.     -^Shakespeare. 

Characters  are  determined  not  by  the  opinions 
which  we  profess,  but  by  those  on  which  our  thoughts 
habitually  fasten,  which  recur  to  them  most  forcibly 
and  which  color  our  ordinary  views  of  God  and  duty. 

— William  Ellery  Channing, 


Thoughts  105 


We  are  too  busy,  too  encumbered,  too  much  occu- 
pied, too  active !  We  read  too  much !  The  one  thing 
needful  is  to  throw  off  all  one's  load  of  cares,  and  to 
become  young  again,  living  happily  and  gracefully  in 
the  present  hour.  We  must  know  how  to  put  occu- 
pation aside,  which  does  not  mean  that  we  must  be 
idle.  — Translation,  Mrs.  Humphrey  Ward. 

The  new  conditions  of  life  demand  the  higher  spir- 
ituality of  the  individual.  But  what  is  this?  Is  it  a 
name,  a  mental  state  of  exaltation,  an  ecstasy  ?  Is  it  an 
exalted  hour,  or  is  it  conduct?  Is  it  a  merely  theo- 
retical thing,  a  vision  caught  in  some  rare  hour  ?  .  .  . 
If  it  be  thus,  it  may  have  a  decorative  value  in 
ethics,  but  is  devoid  of  any  practical  bearing  on  our 
common  life.  Unless  spirituality  is  the  power  that 
transforms  falsehood  to  truth,  selfishness  to  generosity, 
unless  it  enters  into  character  as  a  pervasive  forc^  of 
what  use  can  it  be  ? 

Spirituality  is  not  negative.  It  is  not  the  mere  ab- 
sence of  sin.     It  is  the  most  positive  state. 

— The  World  Beautiful,  Lilian  Whiting. 

The  world  seemed  empty,  and  black,  and  cold. 
And  wretched,  and  helpless,  and  very  old. 
God  gave  me  a  thought;  a  new  world  grew. 
The  thought  created  the  world  anew. 

—S.  W.Foss, 


io6  Thoughts 


Apology  is  only  egotism  wrong  side  out. 

— Oliver  Wendell  Holmes, 

No  one  has  any  more  right  to  go  about  unhappy 
than  he  has  to  go  about  ill-bred.  He  owes  it  to  him- 
self, to  his  friends,  to  society  and  the  community  in 
general,  to  live  up  to  his  best  spiritual  possibilities,  not 
only  now  and  then,  but  every  day  and  every  hour. 

— Lilian  Whiting. 

Who  shoots  at  the  mid-day  sun,  though  he  be  sure 
that  he  shall  never  hit  the  mark,  yet  as  sure  is  he  that 
he  shall  shoot  higher  than  he  who  aims  but  at  a  bush. 

— Sir  Philip  Sidney. 

Blessed  are  they  who  have  the  gift  of  making 
friends,  for  it  is  one  of  God's  best  gifts.  It  involves 
many  things,  but,  above  all,  the  power  of  going  out  of 
one's  self,  and  seeing  and  appreciating  whatever  is 
noble  and  loving  in  another.  —Thomas  Hughes. 

There  is  no  duty  the  fulfillment  of  which  will  not 
make  you  happier,  nor  any  temptation  for  which  there 
is  no  remedy.  —Seneca. 

Let  nothing  come  between  you  and  the  light. 

— Henry  D.  Thoreau. 


Thoughts  107 


The  summer  vanishes,  but  soon  shall  come 
The  glad  young  days  of  yet  another  year. 
So  do  not  mourn  the  passing  of  a  joy, 
But  rather  wait  the  coming  of  a  good, 
And  know  God  never  takes  a  gift  away 
But  He  sends  other  gifts  to  take  its  place/' 


io8  Thoughts 


We  must  be  as  courteous  to  a  man  as  to  a  picture, 
which  we  are  willing  to  give  the  benefit  of  a  good 
hght.  — Emerson. 

The  old  year  is  fast  slipping  back  behind  us.  We 
cannot  stay  it  if  we  would.  We  must  go  on  and  leave 
our  past.  Let  us  go  forth  nobly.  Let  us  go  as  those 
whom  greater  thoughts  and  greater  deeds  await  be- 
yond. —Phillips  Brooks. 

Opportunity  is  a  good  angel,  but  she  deserts  those 
who  fail  to  recognize  her.  The  ring  of  power  must 
be  worn;  ...  if  the  charm  is  not  held  to  serv- 
ice, it  slips  away.  —Lilian  Whiting. 

A  dull  day  need  not  be  a  depressing  day ;  depression 
always  implies  physical  or  moral  weakness,  and  is 
therefore  never  to  be  tolerated  so  long  as  one  can  strug- 
gle against  it.  —Hamilton  W.  Mahie. 

'Tis  greatly  wise  to  talk  with  our  past  hours 
And  ask  them  what  report  they  bore  to  heaven. 
— Young's  Night  Thoughts. 

For  the  will  and  not  the  gift  makes  the  giver. 

— Lessing. 

Write  it  on  your  heart  that  every  day  is  the  best 
day  of  the  year.  —Emerson. 


Thoughts  109 


If  I  shoot  at  the  sun  I  may  hit  a  star. 

—  P.  T.  Barnum. 

The  highest  point  of  achievement  of  yesterday  is 
the  starting  point  of  to-day. 

— Motto  of  Paulist  Fathers. 

I  look  upon  that  man  as  happy,  who,  when  there  is 
a  question  of  success,  looks  into  his  work  for  a  reply ; 
not  into  the  market,  not  into  opinion,  not  into  patron- 
age. Work  is  victory.  You  want  but  one  verdict ;  if 
you  have  your  own,  you  are  secure  of  the  rest. 

— Emerson. 

There  is  ever  a  song  somewhere,  my  dear. 
Be  the  skies  above  or  dark  or  fair. 
There  is  ever  a  song  that  our  hearts  may  hear — 
There  is  ever  a  song  somewhere,  my  dear — 
There  is  ever  a  song  somewhere ! 

— James  Whitcomh  Riley. 

"The  Present,  the  Present  is  all  thou  hast 
For  thy  sure  possessing ; 
Like  the  Patriarch's  angel,  hold  it  fast 
Till  it  g^ves  its  blessing." 

What  a  sublime  doctrine  it  is  that  goodness  cher- 
ished now,  is  eternal  life  already  entered  upon ! 

— William  Ellery  Channing. 


no  Thoughts 


He  who  feels  contempt 

For  any  living  thing,  hath  faculties 

That  he  has  never  used : 

And  thought  with  him 

Is  in  its  infancy.  --Phillips  Brooks, 


Thoughts  III 


"  'This  one  thing  I  do/  or,  'These  forty  things  I 
dabble  in/— which  shall  it  be?" 

I  expect  to  pass  through  this  life  but  once.  If, 
therefore,  there  is  any  kindness  I  can  show,  or  any 
good  I  can  do  to  any  fellow-being,  let  me  do  it  now, 
let  me  not  defer  it,  for  I  shall  not  pass  this  way  again. 

— Mrs.  A.  B.  Hegeman. 

We  get  no  good  by  being  ungenerous,  even  to  a  book. 

— E.  B.  Browning. 

Build  a  little  fence  of  trust  around  to-day, 
Fill  the  space  with  loving  deeds  and  therein  stay; 
Look  not  through  the  sheltering  bars  upon  to-morrow, 
God  will  help  thee  bear  what  comes  of  joy  or  sorrow. 

— Mary  Frances  Butts. 

A  wide-spreading,  hopeful  disposition  is  the  best 
umbrella  for  this  vale  of  tears.         —Wm.  D.  Howells. 

He  who  meets  life  as  though  it  meant  something 
worth  finding  out,  and  who  expresses  his  best  self,  is 
the  one  who  has  the  permanent  basis  of  happiness. 

—H.  W.  Dresser. 

Conscience  is  nothing  else  but  the  echo  of  God's 
voice  within  the  soul.  — £.  B.  Hall. 


112  Thoughts 


We  prepare  ourselves  for  sudden  deeds  by  the  re- 
iterated choice  of  good  or  evil,  that  gradually  deter- 
mines character.  ^Ccorge  Eliot. 

To  be  courteous  to  one's  peers  is  all  very  well,  but 
it  is  fairness  and  courtesy  and  consideration  to  those 
in  dependent  or  limited  conditions  that  constitute  the 
true  test  of  the  gentleman  or  lady.        —Lilian  Whiting. 

I  like  not  only  to  be  loved,  but  to  be  told  I  am  loved. 
The  realm  of  silence  is  large  enough  beyond  the  grave. 

— George  Eliot. 

* 

I  should  count  myself  fortunate  if  my  home  were 
remembered  for  some  inspiring  quality  of  faith,  char- 
ity, and  aspiring  intelligence.       —Hamilton  W.  Mabie. 

How  soon  a  smile  of  God  can  change  the  world ! 
How  we  are  made  for  happiness — how  work 
Grows  play,  adversity  a  winning  fight! 

— Browning. 

Let  this  auspicious  morning  be  expressed 
With  a  white  stone  distinguished  from  the  rest, 
White  as  thy  fame,  and  as  thy  honor  clear. 
And  let  new  joys  attend  on  thy  now  added  year. 

— Dryden. 

Give  to  a  gracious  message  a  host  of  tongues;  but 
let  ill  tidings  tell  themselves.  —Shakespeare. 


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MMORTALITT  will  come  to  such  as 
are  Jit  for  it;  and  be  ivbo  ivould  be  a  great 
soul  in  the  future  must  he  a  great  soul  noiv. 


Thoughts  113 


Still  o*er  the  earth  hastes  Opportunity, 
Seeking  the  hardy  soul  that  seeks  for  her. 
Be  not  abroad,  nor  deaf  with  household  cares 
That  chatter  loudest  as  they  mean  the  least ; 
Swift-willed  is  thrice  willed ;  late  means  nevermore ; 
Impatient  is  her  foot,  nor  turns  again. 

—James  Russell  Lowell. 

To  live  content  with  small  means — to  seek  elegance 
rather  than  luxury,  and  refinement  rather  than  fash- 
ion, to  be  worthy  not  respectable,  and  wealthy  not 
rich — to  study  hard,  think  quietly,  talk  gently,  act 
frankly,  to  listen  to  stars  and  birds,  babes  and  sages, 
with  open  heart — to  bear  all  cheerfully — do  all  bravely, 
await  occasions — never  hurry;  in  a  word,  to  let  the 
spiritual,  unbidden  and  unconscious,  grow  up  through 
the  common.     This  is  to  be  my  symphony. 

— William  Ellery  Channing. 

Let  us  do  our  duty  in  our  shop  or  our  kitchen,  the 
market,  the  street,  the  office,  the  school,  the  home,  just 
as  faithfully  as  if  we  stood  in  the  front  rank  of  some 
great  battle,  and  we  knew  that  victory  for  mankind 
depended  on  our  bravery,  strength,  and  skill.  When 
we  do  that,  the  humblest  of  us  will  be  serving  in  that 
great  army  which  achieves  the  welfare  of  the  world. 

— Theodore  Parker. 


114  Thoughts 


Opportunities  correspond  with  almost  mathematical 
accuracy  to  the  ability  for  using  them. 

— Lilian  Whiting. 

The  blessedness  of  life  depends  more  upon  its  in- 
terests than  upon  its  comforts.      — George  Macdonald. 

No  man  finds  himself  until  he  has  created  a  world 
for  his  own  soul ;  a  world  apart  from  care  and  weak- 
ness and  the  confusion  of  strife,  in  which  the  faiths 
that  inspire  him,  and  the  ideals  that  lead  him  are  the 
great  and  lasting  verities.  ^Hamilton  IV.  Mabie. 

Endeavor  to  be  patient  in  bearing  the  defects  and 
infirmities  of  others,  of  what  sort  soever  they  be;  for 
thou  thyself  also  hast  many  failings  which  must  be 
borne  with  by  others.  —Thomas  ^  Kempis. 

He  who  does  a  good  deed  is  instantly  ennobled.  He 
who  does  a  mean  deed  is  by  the  action  itself  contracted. 
He  who  puts  off  impurity  thereby  puts  on  purity. 

— Emerson. 

They  also  serve  who  only  stand  and  wait. 

— Milton. 

He  that  is  choice  of  his  time  will  be  choice  of  his 
company  and  choice  of  his  actions.      —Jeremy  Taylor. 


Thoughts  115 


In  all  things  throughout  the  world,  the  man  who 
looks  for  the  crooked  will  see  the  crooked,  and  the 
man  who  looks  for  the  straight  will  see  the  straight. 

— Ruskin. 

Begin,  live,  aspire,  realize  the  best  ideal  of  the  mo- 
ment; and  this  earnest  effort  shall  lead  the  way  to 
greater  achievement.  — i/.  IV.  Dresser. 

Music  is  a  moral  law.  It  gives  a  soul  to  the  uni- 
verse, wings  to  the  mind,  flight  to  the  imagination,  a 
charm  to  sadness,  gayety  and  life  to  everything.  It 
is  the  essence  of  order,  and  leads  to  all  that  is  good, 
just,  and  beautiful.  ^Plato, 

If  thou  wouldst  speak  a  word  of  l6ving  cheer. 
Oh,  speak  it  now.     This  moment  is  thine  own. 

— Nellie  M.  Richardson. 

Can  a  man  help  imitating  that  with  which  he  holds 
reverential  converse?  ^Plato. 

If  a  man  can  write  a  better  book,  preach  a  better 
sermon,  or  make  a  better  mouse-trap,  than  his  neigh- 
bor, though  he  builds  his  house  in  the  woods,  the 
world  will  make  a  beaten  path  to  his  door. 

— Emerson, 


ii6  Thoughts 


Come,  let  us  live  the  poetry  we  sing. 

— Edwin  Markham. 

"Instead  of  wishing  that  all  men  were  of  our  mind, 
we  should  account  it  one  of  the  first  blessings  of  life 
that  there  are  men  who  do  not  agree  with  us.  The 
currents  of  sea  and  air  are  not  more  necessary  than 
the  currents  of  thought." 

In  looking  back  over  our  lives,  we  often  see  that 
what  seemed  at  the  time  the  worst  hours  and  the  most 
hopeless  in  their  wretchedness  were  in  reality  the  best 
of  all!  They  developed  powers  within  us  that  had 
heretofore  slept;  developed  energies  of  which  we  had 
never  dreamed.  ^James  Freeman  Clarke. 

Let  your  task  be  to  render  yourself  worthy  of  love, 
and  this  even  more  for  your  own  happiness  than  for 
that  of  another's.  —Maurice  Materlinck. 

There  is  great  danger  in  constant  dissatisfaction. 
Sooner  or  later,  it  will  involve  the  health,  or  finances, 
or  both,  for  it  destroys  the  mental  balance,  and  impairs 
the  judgment.  — C.  B.  Newcomb. 

"Don't  nurse  opportunity  too  long — take  it  into 
active  partnership  with  you  at  once,  lest  it  leave  you 
for  other  company." 


Thoughts  117 


We  just  shake  hands  at  meeting 

With  many  that  come  nigh ; 
We  nod  the  head  in  greeting 

To  many  that  go  by, — 
But  welcome  through  the  gateway 

Our  few  old  friends  and  true ; 
Then  hearts  leap  up,  and  straightway 

There's  open  house  for  you. 
Old  Friends,  there's  open  house  for  you  I 

The  surface  will  be  sparkling, 

Let  but  a  sunbeam  shine ; 
Yet  in  the  deep  lies  darkling. 

The  true  life  of  the  wine  I 
The  froth  is  for  the  many, 

The  wine  is  for  the  few ; 
Unseen,  untoucht  of  any, 

We  keep  the  best  for  you, 
Old  Friends,  the  very  best  for  you! 

The  many  cannot  know  us ; 

They  only  pace  the  strand. 
Where  at  our  worst  we  show  us — 
The  waters  thick  with  sand ! 
But  out  beyond  the  leaping 

Dim  surge  'tis  clear  and  blue ; 
And  there,  Old  Friends,  we  are  keeping 

A  sacred  calm  for  you, 
Old  Friends,  a  waiting  calm  for  you. 

—Gerald  Massey, 


ii8  Thoughts 


It  is  my  custom  every  night  to  run  all  over  the 
words  and  actions  of  the  past  day;  for  why  shoula  I 
fear  the  sight  of  my  errors  when  I  can  admonish  and 
forgive  myself?  I  was  a  little  too  hot  in  such  a  dis- 
pute :  my  opinion  might  have  been  as  well  spared,  for 
it  gave  offense,  and  did  no  good  at  all.  The  thing  was 
true ;  but  all  truths  are  not  to  be  spoken  at  all  times. 

— Seneca. 

Also,  I  think  that  good  must  come  of  good, 
And  ill  of  evil — surely — unto  all — 
In  every  place  and  time — seeing  sweet  fruit 
Groweth  from  wholesome  roots,  and  bitter  things 
From  poison  stocks ;  yea,  seeing,  too,  how  spite 
Breeds  hate,  and  kindness,  friends,  and  patience,  peace. 

— Edwin  Arnold. 

If  we  would  listen  intently,  we  might  hear  the  divine 
voice  within,  assuring  us  that  God  is  our  life;  that 
spirit  is  the  only  substantial  entity  and  that  love  is  the 
only  law.  —Henry  Wood. 

Let  us  grow  out  of  the  idea  that  because  we  do 
some  one  a  favor  or  render  him  a  service,  that  he  is 
thereby  under  some  transcendent  obligation  to  us. 
Let  us  recognize  the  truth — that  it  is  we  who  are 
obliged  if  he  will  permit  us  to  do  him  a  favor. 

— Lilian  Whiting. 


Thoupfhts  no 


Let  us  have  faith  that  right  makes  might,  and  in 
that  faith  let  us  to  the  end  dare  to  do  our  duty  as  we 
understand  it.  —Abraham  Lincoln, 

Compass  happiness,  since  happiness  alone  is  victory. 
What  you  make  of  life,  it  will  be  to  you.  Take  it  up 
bravely,  bear  it  on  joyfully,  lay  it  down  triumphantly. 

—Gail  Hamilton. 

Those  things  that  are  not  practicable  are  not  de- 
sirable. There  is  nothing  that  God  has  judged  good 
for  us  that  He  has  not  given  us  the  means  to  accom- 
plish. If  we  cry  like  children  for  the  moon,  like  chil- 
dren we  must  cry  on.  —Burke, 

I  feel  the  earth  move  sunward, 
I  join  the  great  march  onward. 
And  take  by  faith  while  living 
My  freehold  of  thanksgiving. 

—John  G,  Whittier. 

Howe'er  it  be,  it  seems  to  me 

'Tis  only  noble  to  be  good ; 
Kind  hearts  are  more  than  coronets. 

And  simple  faith  than  Norman  blood. 

— Tennyson. 


120  Thoughts 


Pin  thy  faith  to  no  man's  sleeve ;  hast  thou  not  two 
eyes  of  thine  own?  — Carlyle. 

Do  your  best  loyally  and  cheerfully,  and  suffer 
yourself  to  feel  no  anxiety  nor  fear.  Your  times  are 
in  God's  hands.  He  has  assigned  you  your  place :  He 
will  direct  your  paths;  He  will  accept  your  efforts,  if 
they  be  faithful.  ^Canon  Farrar, 

When  we  cease  to  look  upon  any  experience  as  too 
hard,  we  have  made  a  decided  step  in  wise  adjustment 
to  life.  — -^'  ^'  Dresser. 

A  certain  awkwardness  marks  the  use  of  borrowed 
thoughts,  but  as  soon  as  we  have  learned  what  to  do 
with  them,  they  become  our  own.  —Emerson. 

The  choir  invisible !  Who  are  members  of  it,  if  not 
all  those  who  in  any  way  are  doing  the  day's  work, 
whatever  it  may  be,  as  well  as  they  know  how;  who 
are  trying  to  make  the  world  happier  and  pleasanter 
for  those  to  whom  their  lives  are  naturally  bound. 

— John  White  Chadwick. 

"By  thine  own  soul's  law  learn  to  live, 
And  if  men  scorn  thee,  take  no  care. 
And  if  men  hate  thee,  takfe  no  heed. 
But  sing  thy  song  and  do  thy  deed. 
And  hope  thy  hope,  and  pray  thy  prayer.*' 


Thoughts  121 


There  arc  some  who  want  to  get  rid  of  their  past, 
who,  if  they  could,  would  begin  all  over  again,  .  .  . 
but  you  must  learn,  you  must  let  God  teach  you,  that 
the  only  way  to  get  rid  of  your  past  is  to  get  a  future 
out  of  it.  -^Phillips  Brooks, 

It  is  a  sign  that  your  reputation  is  small  and  sink- 
ing, if  your  own  tongue  must  praise  you. 

— Sir  Matthew  Hale, 

Because  a  man  has  shop  to  mind 

In  time  and  place,  since  flesh  must  live, 

Needs  spirit  lack  all  life  behind, 

All  stray  thoughts,  fancies  fugitive. 

All  loves  except  what  trade  can  give? 

— Browning, 

There  is  no  beautifier  in  form  or  behavior  like  the; 
wish  to  scatter  joy,  and  not  pain,  around  us. 

— Emerson, 

Beware  of  little  expenses;  a  small  leak  will  sink  a 
great  ship.  ^Benjamin  Franklin. 

First  make  your  arrangements,  then  trust  in  heaven ; 
and  in  no  case  worry.  —Prof.  Jowett, 


122  Thoughts 


"Hold  thy  peace  or  say  something  better  than  si- 
lence." 

"Friend,  all  the  world's  a  little  queer,  excepting  thee 
and  me ;  and  sometimes  I  think  thee  a  trifle  peculiar." 

We  live  by  our  enthusiasm  and  our  exaltations.  Our 
sympathies  are  our  strength.  Our  interests  are  our 
magnetisms,  and  are  transmuted  into  our  working 
capital.  —Lilian  Whiting. 

His  heart  was  as  great  as  the  world,  but  there  was 
no  room  in  it  to  hold  the  memory  of  a  wrong. 

(Said  of  Lincoln.)  —Emerson. 

He  is  all  truth  in  his  words,  and  justice  in  his  ac- 
tions, and  if  the  whole  world  should  disbelieve  his  in- 
tegrity, dispute  his  character,  and  question  his  happi- 
ness, he  would  neither  take  it  ill  in  the  least,  nor  turn 
aside  from  that  path  that  leads  to  the  aim  of  life, 
toward  which  he  must  move,  pure,  calm,  well  pre- 
pared— and  with  perfect  resignation  in  his  fate. 

— Marcus  Aurelius. 

Observe  good  faith  and  justice  toward  all  nations, 
cultivate  peace  and  harmony  with  all.  Religion  and 
morality  enjoin  this  conduct ;  and  can  it  be  that  good 
policy  does  not  equally  enjoin  it  ?  —Washington. 


Thoughts  123 


It  is  well  to  believe  that  there  needs  but  a  little 
more  thought,  a  little  more  courage,  more  love,  more 
devotion  to  life,  a  little  more  eagerness,  one  day  to 
fling  open  wide  the  portals  of  joy  and  of  truth. 

— Maurice  Materlinck, 

The  mind  has  a  thousand  eyes. 

And  the  heart  but  one ; 
Yet  the  light  of  a  whole  life  dies 

When  love  is  done. 

—F.  W.  Bourdilhn, 

A  man's  home  is  his  castle,  but  it  ought  to  be  more. 
It  ought  to  be  his  home.  That  it  is  his  castle  is  his 
right  by  law.  To  make  it  a  real  home  depends  upon 
himself.  — 5'»r  /.  Lubbock. 

We  can  fix  our  eyes  on  perfection  and  make  almost 
everything  speed  towards  it.  ^W.  E.  Channing. 

"It  was  the  heaven  within  her  that  made  a  heaven 
without." 

He  who,  forgetting  self,  makes  the  object  of  his  life 
service,  helpfulness  and  kindness  tq  others,  finds  his 
whole  nature  growing  and  expanding,  himself  becom- 
ing large-hearted,  magnanimous,  kind,  sympathetic, 
joyous  and  happy;  his  life  becoming  rich  and  beau- 
tiful. —Ralph  Waldo  Trine. 


1 24  Thoughts 


"Talk  happiness ;  the  world  is  sad  enough 
Without  your  woes.    No  path  is  wholly  rough : 
Look  for  the  places  that  are  smooth  and  clear, 
And  speak  of  these  to  rest  the  weary  ear 
Of  earth,  so  hurt  by  one  continuous  strain 
Of  human  discontent  and  grief  and  pain." 

Lord  God  of  Hosts,  be  with  us  yet, 

Lest  we  forget, — lest  we  forget !     —Kipling. 

This  world's  no  blot  for  us 
Nor  blank ;  it  means  intensely  and  means  good : 
To  find  its  meaning  is  my  meat  and  drink. 

— Robert  Browning. 

The  test  of  friendship  is  its  fidelity  when  every 
charm  of  fortune  and  environment  has  been  swept 
away,  and  the  bare,  undraped  character  alone  remains ; 
if  love  still  holds  steadfast,  and  the  joy  of  companion- 
ship still  survives,  in  such  an  hour,  the  fellowship  be- 
•comes  a  beautiful  prophecy  of  immortality. 

— Hamilton  Wright  Mabie. 

We  lose  vigor  through  thinking  continually  the  same 
«et  of  thoughts.     New  thought  is  new  life. 

— Prentice  Mulford. 


Thoughts  125 


No  sadder  proof  can  be  given  by  a  man  of  his  own 
littleness  than  disbelief  in  great  men.  ^Carlyle. 

If  you  want  knowledge,  you  must  toil  for  it;  if 
food,  you  must  toil  for  it;  and  if  pleasure,  you  must 
toil  for  it.  Toil  is  the  law.  Pleasure  comes  through 
toil,  and  not  by  self-indulgence  and  indolence.  When 
one  gets  to  love  work,  his  life  is  a  happy  one. 

— Ruskin, 

Nay,  never  falter ;  no  great  deed  is  done 
By  falterers  who  ask  for  certainty. 

No  good  is  certain  but  the  steadfast  mind. 
The  undivided  will  to  seek  the  good. 

— George  Eliot. 

There  is  a  class  of  people  who  are  comparatively 
valueless  to  the  world  because  of  a  certain  morbidness 
which  they  are  pleased  to  call  sensitiveness.  In  real- 
ity it  is  nothing  of  the  sort.  It  is  self-love — a  refined 
variety  of  it,  to  be  sure,  but  none  the  less  is  it  the  re- 
sult of  a  selfishly  subjective  state,  in  which  they  look  in 
and  not  out,  and  down  and  not  up,  and  fail  to  lend  a 
hand — not  from  any  real  unwillingness,  but  because 
they  are  looking  in,  and  do  not  see  the  opportunity. 

— Lilian  Whiting. 

No  one  is  useless  in  this  world  who  lightens  the  bur- 
den of  it  to  anyone  else.  —Dickens. 


126  Thoughts 


We  always  weaken  when  we  exaggerate. 

— La  Harpe. 

It  is  not  poverty  that  helps  a  man ;  it  is  the  effort  by 
which  he  throws  off  the  yoke  of  poverty  that  enlarges 
the  powers.  ^David  Starr  Jordan. 

"Of  all  bad  habits,  despondency  is  among  the  least 
respectable,  and  there  is  no  one  quite  so  tiresome  as 
the  sad-visaged  Christian  who  is  oppressed  by  the 
wickedness  and  hopelessness  of  the  world." 

Rest  is  not  idleness,  and  to  lie  sometimes  on  the  grass 
under  the  trees  on  a  summer's  day,  listening  to  thft 
murmur  of  water,  or  watching  the  clouds  float  across 
the  sky,  is  by  no  means  waste  of  time. 

— Sir  J.  Lubbock. 

There  is  no  preservative  and  antiseptic,  nothing  that 
keeps  one's  heart  young  like  sympathy,  like  giving 
one's  self  with  enthusiasm  to  some  worthy  thing  or 
cause.  — John  Burroughs. 

A  truly  concentrated  life  promptly   rejects   every 
thought  of  past  or  future  that  would  disturb  its  confi- 
dence in  the  present  hour.  — C.  B.  Newcomb. 


Thoughts  127 


A  man  can  never  be  idle  with  safety  and  advantage 
until  he  has  been  so  trained  by  work  that  he  makes 
his  freedom  more  fruitful  than  his  toil. 

— Hamilton  Wright  Mabie. 

After  every  storm  the  sun  will  smile;  for  every 
problem  there  is  a  solution,  and  the  soul's  indefeasible 
duty  is  to  be  of  good  cheer.  —Wm.  R.  Alger, 

Be  sure  to  live  on  the  sunny  side,  and  even  then  do 
not  expect  the  world  to  look  bright,  if  you  habitually 
wear  gray-brown  glasses.  —Chas.  H.  Eliot. 

Whenever  Conscience  calls  a  halt,  it  is  no  place  for 
Reason  to  debate  the  question.  The  way  ahead  is  no 
thoroughfare.  —Charles  Egbert  Craddock. 

Give  what  you  have.  To  some  one  it  may  be  better 
than  you  dare  to  think.  —Longfellow. 

*Tf  bitterness  has  crept  into  the  heart  in  the  fric- 
tion of  the  busy  day's  unguarded  moments,  be  sure  it 
steals  away  with  the  setting  sun.  Twilight  is  God's  in- 
terval for  peace-making." 

It  is  surely  better  to  pardon  too  much  than  to  con- 
demn too  much.  —Geo.  Eliot. 


128  Thoughts 


"The  initial  need  to  enjoyment  is  not  many  posses- 
sions, but  much  appreciation." 

Just  to  be  good,  to  keep  Hfe  pure  from  degrading 
elements,  to  make  it  constantly  helpful  in  little  ways 
to  those  who  are  touched  by  it,  to  keep  one's  spirit 
always  sweet  and  avoid  all  manner  of  petty  anger  and 
irritability, — that  is  an  idea  as  noble  as  it  is  difficult. 

— Edward  Howard  Griggs. 

Many  men  owe  the  grandeur  of  their  lives  to  their 
tremendous  difficulties.  —Spurgeon, 

"No  matter  how  narrow  your  limits 
Go  forth  and  make  them  broad : 
You  are  every  one  the  daughter  or  son, 
Crown  prince  or  princess  of  God." 

The  best  help  is  not  to  bear  the  troubles  of  others 
for  them,  but  to  inspire  them  with  courage  and  energy 
to  bear  their  burdens  for  themselves  and  meet  the 
difficulties  of  life  bravely.  —Lubbock. 

Never  tell  evil  of  a  man,  if  you  do  not  know  it  for 
certainty,  and  if  you  know  it  for  a  certainty,  then  ask 
yourself,  "Why  should  I  tell  it?"  —Lavater. 


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RE  AT  poivers  and  natural  gifts  do  not 
bring  privileges  to  their  possessors  so 
much    as   they    bring    duties. 

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Thoughts  129 


Let  us  then  labor  for  an  inward  stillness, 
An  inward  stillness  and  an  inward  healing; 
That  perfect  silence  where  the  lips  and  heart 
Are  still,  and  we  no  longer  entertain 
Our  own  imperfect  thoughts  and  vain  opinions. 
But  God  alone  speaks  in  us,  and  we  wait 
In  singleness  of  heart  that  we  may  know 
His  will,  and  in  the  silence  of  our  own  spirits, 
That  we  may  do  His  will,  and  that  only. 

— Longfellow, 


130  Thoughts 


Many  persons  might  have  attained  to  wisdom  had 
they  not  assumed  that  they  already  possessed  it. 

— Seneca, 

Stagnation  is  death,  whether  it  be  physical  or  spir- 
itual. A  pool  cannot  be  pure  and  ^  sweet  unless  there 
is  an  outlet  as  well  as  an  inlet.  Unless  you  use  for  the 
service  of  others  what  God  has  already  given  you,  you 
will  find  it  a  long  weary  road  to  Spiritual  Understand- 
ing. — H.  Emilie  Cady. 

Make  friends  with  your  trials,  as  though  you  were 
always  to  live  together,  and  you  will  find  that  when 
you  cease  to  take  thought  for  your  own  deliverance, 
God  will  take  thought  for  you.     —Frances  de  Sales. 

"God  will  never  leave  you  without  light  enough  to 
take  one  step.  Don't  stop  walking  till  the  light  gives 
out." 

We  ask  for  long  life,  but  'tis  deep  life,  or  grand  mo- 
ments that  signify.  Let  the  measure  of  time  be  spir- 
itual, not  mechanical.  —Emerson. 

If  a  man  does  not  make  new  acquaintances  as  he  ad- 
vances through  life,  he  will  soon  find  himself  alone.  A 
man,  sir,  should  keep  his  friendships  in  constant  re- 
pair, —/v.  Johnson. 


Thoughts  131 


"Happiness  does  not  depend  on  money  or  leisure,  or 
society,  or  even  on  health ;  it  depends  on  our  relation 
to  those  we  love." 

Life  without  endeavor  is  like  entering  a  jewel-mine 
and  coming  out  with  empty  hands. 

— Japanese  Proverb, 

Accustom  yourself  to  master  and  overcome  things 
of  difficulty;  for  if  you  observe — the  left  hand  for 
want  of  practice  is  insignificant — and  not  adapted  to 
general  business ;  yet  it  holds  the  bridle  better  than  the 
right — from  constant  use.  —Pliny. 

Almost  every  moment  of  the  day  the  eye  is  receiv- 
ing impressions  from  outward  objects,  and  instantly 
communicating  these  impressions  to  the  soul.  Thus 
the  soul  receives  every  day  thousands  of  impressions, 
good  or  bad,  according  to  the  character  of  the  objects 
presented.  --Cardinal  Gibbons, 

Our  greatest  glory  is  not  in  never  falling,  but  in 
rising  every  time  we  fall.  —Confucius. 

Nobody  has  any  right  to  find  life  uninteresting  or 
unrewarding  who  sees  within  the  sphere  of  his  own 
activity  a  wrong  he  can  help  to  remedy,  or  within 
himself  an  evil  he  can  hope  to  overcome. 

—Charu  H.  Eliot. 


132  Thoughts 


It  is  as  amazing  as  it  is  sad,  that  we  go  about  so 
largely  burdening  ourselves  with  strivings  that  are  of 
no  consequence,  and  miss  the  gladness  and  exhilara- 
tion of  living.  No  life  is  successful  until  it  is  radiant. 
The  King  of  Glory  is  always  ready  to  come  in.  Why 
do  we  bar  the  way?  We  cannot  all  live  in  palaces; 
but  we  can  all  live  in  the  Kingdom  of  Heaven,  and  the 
material  luxuries  of  the  one  pale  before  the  glow  and 
thrill  and  exaltation  of  the  other. 

—The  World  Beautiful^  Lilian  Whiting, 

"As  I  walked  by  myself 

I  talked  with  myself, 
And  myself  said  this  unto  me : 

Make  friends  with  thyself. 
Be  true  to  thyself, 

And  thyself  thy  good  angel  shall  be." 

The  prosperity  of  a  nation  depends  upon  the  health 
and  morals  of  its  citizens,  and  the  health  and  morals 
of  people  depend  mainly  upon  the  food  they  eat  and 
the  houses  they  live  in.  The  time  has  come  when  we 
must  have  a  science  of  domestic  economy,  and  it  must 
be  worked  out  in  the  homes  of  our  educated  women. 
A  knowledge  of  the  elements  of  chemistry  and  phy- 
sics must  be  applied  to  the  daily  living. 

— Ellen  Richards. 


Thoughts  133 


*Tis  looking  downward  makes  one  dizzy. 

— Browning. 

Contact  with  nobler  natures  arouses  the  feelings  of 
unused  power  and  quickens  the  consciousness  of  re- 
sponsibility, —Canon  WestcoU, 

Diligence  is  the  mother  of  good  luck. 

— Benjamin  Franklin, 

"Diving  and  finding  no  pearl  in  the  sea. 
Blame  not  the  ocean,  the  fault  is  in  thee." 

A  partnership  with  God  is  motherhood. 
What  strength,  what  purity,  what  self-control,    . 
What  love,  what  wisdom  should  belong  to  her 
Who  helps  God  fashion  an  immortal  soul ! 

— Mary  Wood  Allen. 

No  one  but  yourself  can  make  your  life  beautiful, 
no  one  can  be  pure,  honorable  and  loving  for  you. 

— /.  R.  Miller. 

Ah,  the  key  of  our  life,  that  passes  all  wards,  opens  all 

locks, 
Is  not  I  will,  but  I  must,  I  must,  I  must, — and  I  do  it. 

^A.  H.  Clough. 


134  Thoughts 


I  beg  you  take  courage:  the  brave  soul  can  mend 
even  disaster.  ^Catherine  of  Russia. 

Opinions  are  often  the  very  death  of  love.  Love 
aright  and  you  will  come  to  think  aright;  and  those 
who  think  aright,  must  think  the  same.  In  the  mean- 
time, it  matters  nothing.  The  thing  that  does  matter 
is  that  whereto  we  have  attained.     —Geo.  Macdondld. 

Would  the  face  of  nature  be  so  serene  and  beautiful 
if  man's  destiny  were  not  equally  so  ?  —Thoreau. 

Some  men  move  through  life  as  a  band  of  music 
moves  down  the  street,  flinging  out  pleasure  on  every 
side  through  the  air,  to  every  one  far  and  near  that 
can  listen.  — Henry  Ward  Beecher. 

Man  is  his  own  star ;  and  the  soul  that  can 
Render  an  honest  and  an  upright  man. 
Commands  all  light,  all  influence,  all  fate ; 
Nothing  to  him  falls  early  or  too  late. 
Our  acts  our  angels  are,  or  good  or  ill. 
Our  fatal  shadows  that  walk  by  us  still. 

— Beaumont  and  Fletcher, 


Thoughts  135 


The  nearer  you  come  into  relation  with  a  person,  the 
more  necessary  do  tact  and  courtesy  become. 

— Holmes. 

What  your  heart  thinks  great  is  great.  The  soul's 
emphasis  is  always  right.  -—Emerson, 

Courage,  Sir, 
That  makes  a  man  or  woman  look  their  goodliest. 

— Tennyson. 

For  a  woman  to  be  wise  and  at  the  same  time  wom- 
anly, is  to  wield  a  tremendous  influence  which  may  be 
felt  for  good  in  the  lives  of  generations  to  come. 

— David  Starr  Jordan. 

We  never  know  for  what  God  is  preparing  us  in  his 
schools,  for  what  work  on  earth,  for  what  work  in  the 
hereafter.  Our  business  is  to  do  our  work  well  in  the 
present  place,  whatever  that  may  be. 

— Lyman  Abbott, 

There  is  no  unbelief : 
Whoever  plants  a  seed  beneath  the  sod. 
And  waits  to  see  it  push  away  the  clod. 

Trusts  in  God.  —Bulwer-Lytton, 


136  Thoughts 


The  world  is  such  stuff  as  ideas  are  made  of. 
Thought  possesses  all  things.  But  the  world  is  not 
unreal.  It  extends  infinitely  beyond  our  private  con- 
sciousness, because  it  is  the  world  of  a  universal  mind. 

— Josiah  Royce. 


Thoughts  137 


In  Life's  small  things  be  resolute  and  great 

To  keep  thy  muscles  trained ;  know'st  thou  when  fate 

Thy  measure  takes  ?  or  when  she'll  say  to  thee, 

"I  find  thee  worthy,  do  this  thing  for  me !" 

— Emerson. 

To  hold  one's  self  in  readiness  for  opportunity,  to 
keep  the  serene,  confident,  hopeful,  and  joyful  energy 
of  mind,  is  to  magnetize  it,  and  draw  privileges  and 
power  toward  one.  The  concern  is  not  whether  op- 
portunity will  present  itself,  but  as  to  whether  we  will 
be  ready  for  the  opportunity.  It  comes  not  to  doubt 
and  denial  and  disbelief.  It  comes  to  sunny  expecta- 
tion, eager  purpose,  and  to  noble  and  generous  aspira- 
tion. --Lilian  Whiting. 

Let  not  soft  slumber  close  your  eyes, 
Before  you've  recollected  thrice 
The  train  of  action  through  the  day. 
Where  have  my  feet  chose  out  their  way? 
What  have  I  learnt,  where'er  I've  been, 
From  all  I've  heard,  from  all  I've  seen  ? 
What  know  I  more  that's  worth  the  knowing?^ 
What  have  I  done  that's  worth  the  doing? 

—Isaac  Watts. 


138  Thoughts 


If  we  neglect  to  exercise  any  talent,  power,  or  qual- 
ity, it  soon  falls  away  from  us.  —Henry  Wood. 

Every  moment  of  worry  weakens  the  soul  for  its 
daily  combat.  —Anna  Robertson  Brown. 

With  aching  hands  and  bleeding  feet 

We  dig  and  heap,  lay  stone  on  stone ; 

We  bear  the  burden  and  the  heat  of  the  long  day 

And  wish  'twere  done. 

Not  till  the  hour  of  light  return 

All  we  have  built  do  we  discern. 

— Matthew  Arnold. 

What  a  man  is  inwardly  that  to  him  will  the  world 
be  outwardly:  his  mood  aifects  the  very  "quality  of 
the  day."  —Bradford  Torrey. 

This  is  my  youth — its  hopes  and  dreams 
How  strange  and  shadowy  it  all  seems, 

After  these  many  years ! 
Turning  the  pages  idly,  so, 
I  look  with  smiles  upon  the  woe, 

Upon  the  joy,  with  tears!  —Aldrkh. 


Thoughts  139 


It  is  in  loving,  not  in  being  loved, 

The  heart  is  blessed ; 
It  is  in  giving,  not  in  seeking  gifts. 

We  find  our  quest. 
Whatever  be  thy  longing  or  thy  need, 

That  do  thou  give. 
So  shalt  thy  soul  be  fed,  and  thou,  indeed, 

Shalt  truly  live.  —M.  E.  Russell. 

The  world  is  a  looking  glass. 
Wherein  ourselves  are  shown, — 
Kindness  for .  kindness,  cheer  for  cheer. 
Coldness  for  gloom,  repulse  for  fear, — 
To  every  soul  its  own. 
We  cannot  change  the  world  a  whit. 
Only  ourselves,  who  look  in  it. 

— Susan  Coolidge. 

I  would  say  to  all :  use  your  gentlest  voice  at  home. 
Watch  it  day  by  day,  as  a  pearl  of  great  price ;  for  it 
will  be  worth  to  you  in  days  to  come  more  than  the 
best  pearl  hid  in  the  sea.  A  kind  voice  is  joy,  like  a 
lark's  song,  to  a  hearth  at  home.  It  is  a  light  that 
sings  as  well  as  shines.  Train  it  to  sweet  tones  now, 
V  and  it  will  keep  in  tune  through  life.   -~EHhu  Burritt. 


I40  Thoughts 


In  a  world  in  which  so  many  people  wear  the  same 
clothes,  live  in  the  same  house,  eat  the  same  dinner, 
and  say  the  same  things,  blessed  are  the  individuals 
who  are  not  lost  in  the  mob,  who  have  their  own 
thoughts,  and  live  their  own  lives. 

— Hamilton  Wright  Mabie. 

There  are  people  who  go  about  the  world  looking 
for  slights  and  they  are  necessarily  miserable,  for  they 
find  them  at  every  turn.  —Drummond. 

He  who  has  a  thousand  rooms  sleeps  in  but  one. 

— Japanese  Proverb. 

Be  happy,  peaceful  and  satisfied  just  as  you  stand, 
having  sufficient  steadiness  and  independence  to  hold 
your  own  against  the  eddies  and  rapids  about  you. 
Apply  practically  that  which  you  perceive  spiritually. 

Accept  your  position  as  it  is,  and  make  the  very  best 
of  it  till  it  passes.  Work  with  it,  knowing  that  In- 
finite Wisdom  is  guiding  you :  and  so  cease  all  anxious 
thought,  and  rest. 

— God's  Light  as  It  Came   to  Me. 

Aspire,  break  bounds !     I  say. 
Endeavor  to  be  good,  and  better  still. 
And  best  I 

— Robert  Browning. 


Thoughts  141 


CHRISTMAS  DAY. 

Glory  be  to  Thee  in  the  highest  heavens,  O  Thou 
God  of  our  salvation.  Thou  hast  proclaimed  peace  on 
earth  and  infinite  good  will  to  men.  Unto  us  has  been 
born  a  Guide  and  Deliverer.  We  hail  the  morning 
which  commemorates  His  birth.  We  thank  Thee  that 
we  may  unite  in  the  joyful  commemoration  which 
makes  us  one  with  millions  of  Thy  children  in  all  parts 
of  the  world.  ^Altar  at  Home. 

Lift  up  yourselves  to  the  great  meaning  of  the  day, 
and  dare  to  think  of  your  humanity  as  something  so 
divinely  precious  that  it  is  worthy  of  being  an  offering 
to  God.  Count  it  a  privilege  to  make  that  offering  as 
complete  as  possible,  keeping  nothing  back,  and  then 
go  out  to  the  pleasures  and  duties  of  your  life,  having 
been  born  anew  into  His  divinity,  as  He  was  born  into 
our  humanity  on  Christmas  Day.      —Phillips  Brooks. 


142  Thoughts 


Then  wisely  weigh 
Our  sorrow  with  our  comfort. 

— Shakespeare. 

There  are  two  times  in  a  man's  life  when  he  should 
not  speculate ;  when  he  can't  afford  it,  and  when  he  can. 

— Mark  Twain. 

A  man  may  get  to  his  journey's  end  by  the  light  of 
a  lantern,  but  he  is  less  secure  than  the  man  who 
travels  by  daylight,  and  he  loses  the  landscape. 

— Hamilton  Wright  Mabie. 

As  our  ideal  becomes  loftier,  so  does  it  become  more 
real ;  and  the  nobler  our  soul,  the  less  does  it  dread  that 
it  meet  not  a  soul  of  its  stature;  for  it  must  have 
drawn  near  unto  truth,  in  whose  neighborhood  all 
things  must  take  of  its  greatness. 

— Maurice  Materlinck. 

The  importance  of  a  home  it  is  impossible  to  exag- 
gerate. What  is  liberty  without  it?  What  is  educa- 
tion in  schools  without  it  ?  The  greatness  of  no  nation 
can  be  secure  that  is  not  based  upon  a  pure  home  life. 

— Arnold  Toynhee. 

Nay,  if  you  come  to  that,  best  love  of  all 

Is  God's ;  then  why  not  have  God's  love  befall 

Myself?  —Robert  Browning. 


Thoughts  143 


Let  nothing  disturb  thee, 

Nothing  affright  thee; 
All  things  are  passing ; 

God  never  changeth ; 
Patient  endurance 

Attaineth  to  all  things; 
Who  God  possesseth 

In  nothing  is  wanting ; 
Alone  God  sufficeth. 

— Santa  Teresa's  Book  Mark. 

When  a  beautiful  soul  harmonizes  with  a  beautiful 
form,  and  the  two  are  cast  in  one  mould,  that  will  be 
the  fairest  of  sights  to  him  who  has  the  eye  to  con- 
template the  vision.  —Plato. 

It  is  only  to  the  finest  natures  that  age  gives  an  added 
beauty  and  distinction ;  for  the  most  persistent  self  has 
then  worked  its  way  to  the  surface,  having  modified 
the  expression,  and  to  some  extent,  the  features,  to  its 
own  likeness.  —Mathilde  Blind. 

"God  never  loved  me  in  so  sweet  a  way  before, 
'Tis  He  alone  who  can  such  blessings  send, 
And  when  His  love  would  new  expressions  find. 
He  brought  thee  to  me,  and  He  said, 
'Behold  a  friend.' " 


144  Thoughts 


"We  can  never  see  the  sun  rise  by  looking  into  the 
west." 

Give  not  thy  tongue  too  great  Hberty,  lest  it  take  thee 
a  prisoner.  A  word  unspoken  is  like  the  sword  in 
the  scabbard — thine:  if  vented,  thy  sword  is  in  an- 
other's hand.  —Quarks. 

Reputation  is  in  itself  only  a  farthing  candle,  of 
wavering  and  uncertain  flame,  and  easily  blown  out; 
but  it  is  the  light  by  which  the  world  looks  for  and 
finds  merit.  —Lowell. 

The  making  of  friends,  who  are  real  friends,  is  the 
best  token  we  have  of  a  man's  success  in  life. 

— Edward  Everett  Hale. 

"It  was  only  a  glad  *Good-morning' 

As  she  passed  along  the  way. 
But  it  spread  the  morning's  glory 
Over  the  live  long  day." 

There  is  only  one  way  to  have  good  servants;  that 
is,  to  be  worthy  of  being  well  served.  Only  let  it  be 
remembered  that  "kindness"  means,  as  with  your  child, 
so  with  your  servant,  not  indulgence,  but  care. 

— Ruskin. 


J^Z.,^^^^ /^-ec.i^^'s^i?^  ^^-^-^Sl. 


T: 


0  educate  the  hearty  one  must  be  iviUing 
to  go  out  of  himself  and  come  into  loving 
contact  luitb  others, 

44 


Thoughts  14] 


"Far  out  of  sight,  while  sorrows  still  enfold  us. 
Lies  the  fair  country  where  our  hearts  abide : 
And  of  its  bliss  is  naught  more  wondrous  told  us. 
Than  these  few  words,  *I  shall  be  satisfied/  " 

^'Though  there  come  a  million, 
Wise  Saadi  dwells  alone." 
But  it  is  a  question  as  to  whether  Saadi  is  wise  when 
he  prefers  to  dwell  alone.  Living  on  earth,  is  it  not 
one's  duty  to  hear  many  voices  that  ring  in  its  air? 
Is  one's  life  for  mere  acquirement,  or  to  show  results 
and  flower  into  influence  and  deed? 

—The  World  Beautiful,  Lilian  Whiting. 

The  mountain  top  must  be  reached  no  matter  how 
many  times  we  fall  in  reaching  it.  The  fall  is  not 
counted,  it  does  not  register;  the  picking  up  and  go- 
ing on  counts  in  life.  -i^lora  Howard. 

Success  in  life  is  a  matter  not  so  much  of  talent  or 
opportunity  as  of  concentration  and  perseverance. 

—Chas.  W.  Wendte. 

Be  what  thou  seemest ;  live  thy  creed. 
Hold  up  to  earth  the  touch  divine ; 
Be  what  thou  prayest  to  be  made ; 
Let  the  great  Master's  steps  be  thine. 

— Horatio  Bonar. 


146  Thoughts 


To  be  honest,  to  be  kind,  to  earn  a  little,  and  to  spend 
a  little  less,  to  make  upon  the  whole,  a  family  happier 
for  his  presence,  to  renounce  when  that  shall  be  neces- 
sary and  not  to  be  embittered,  to  keep  a  few  friends, 
but  these  without  capitulation ;  above  all,  on  the  same 
condition,  to  keep  friends  with  himself,  here  is  a  task 
for  all  a  man  has  of  fortitude  and  delicacy. 

— Robert  Louis  Stevenson. 

Who  is  the  honest  man  ? 
He  that  doth  still  and  strongly  good  pursue. 
To  God,  his  neighbor  and  himself  most  true, 

Whom  neither  force  nor  fawning  can 
Unpin,  or  wrench  from  giving  all  their  due. 

— George  Herbert. 

Take  the  Sunday  with  you  through  the  week. 
And  sweeten  with  it  all  the  other  days. 

— Longfellow. 

God  will  not  mock  the  hope  he  giveth. 
No  love  he  prompts  shall  vainly  plead. 

—Whittier. 

God's  goodness  hath  been  great  to  thee ; 
Let  never  day  or  night  unhallowed  pass. 
But  still  remember  what  the  Lord  hath  done. 

— Shakespeare, 


Thoughts  147 


Yet  ere  we  part,  one  lesson  I  can  leave  you 

For  every  day     ... 
Be  good    .     .    . 

Do  noble  things,  not  dream  them,  all  day  long : 
And  so  make  life,  death,  and  that  vast  forever 

One  grand  sweet  song. 

— Charles  Kingsley. 


INDEX  TO  POEMS 


PAGQ 

A  New  Year  Motto /.  M.  C.  Bouchard.    28 

Come  Up  Higher James  G.  Clarke      9 

Good  in  Thought James  Russell  Lowell.    34 

Infinite    Love ^y 

My  Soul  and  I Laura  Barker.    82 

Old  Friends Gerald  Massey.  117 

Opportunity James   Russell    Lowell  1 13 

Prayer  Canon  Farrar    17 

Santa  Teresa's  Book  Mark 143 

The  Mountain   and  the   Squirrel Ralph   Waldo 

Emerson    75 

To  Know  and  Do  His  Will.  .Henry  Wadsworth  Long- 
fellow      129 

Truth  by  Majority Edward  Rowland  Sill.    43 

Wouldst  Shape  a  Noble  Life? Goethe.    67 

You     Can     Never     Tell     What     Your     Thoughts 
Will  Do 11 


INDEX  TO  AUTHORS 

PAQB 

Abbott,   Dr.  Lyman 64 

Alcott,  Louise  May 88 

Aldrich,    Thomas    B 38,  138 

Alger,    Wm.    R 127 

Allen,  James  Lane ,.  .48,    62 

Allen,    Mary   Wood 133 

Allison,  Francis  J 39 

Amiel    19,  64,    99 

Arabian,    Proverb 45 

Arabic,   From  the 41 

Arnold,    Edwin 118 

Arnold,    Matthew 138 

Auerbach,    Berthold 59 

Augustine,    St 25 

Aurelius,    Marcus 38,  41,  62,  74,  122 

Bacon,    Francis 60 

Balzac,  Honore  de 40 

Barker,    Laura 82 

Barnum,    P.   T 109 

Barrows,   Rev.  S.  J 19 

Beaumont   and   Fletcher 134 

Beecher,  Henry  Ward 14,    25,  59.  85,  134 

Black,    H , 76 

Blinde,    Mathilde I43 

Bolton,    Sarah    K 24 

Bonar,    Horatio I45 

Bourdillon,  F.  U 123 


Index  to  Authors  151 


Bovee    , 5 

Brooks,    Phillips 24,  53,  59,  78,  91,  108,  no,  121,  141 

Browning,    Elizabeth   Barrett 24,  39,  69,  76,  91,  in,  121 

Browning,  Robert 19,  48,  55,  73,  87,  89,  93,  loi,  112 

124,  142 

Bulwer,  Lord  Lytton 99,  135 

Burdette,  Robert  J 36 

Burke,   Edmund 119 

Burritt,    Elihu 139 

Burroughs,    John 126 

Burton,    Richard 69 

Bushnell,    Horace 20,    86 

Buxton,    Charlds »  27^  60,    64 

Byron,    George   Gordon   Noel,   Lord 16,    66 

Cady,  H.  Emilie 52,  76,  94,  130 

Caesar    44 

Carlton,    Will 14 

Carlyle,    Thomas 12,  44,  51,  68,  81,  103,  120,  125 

Caruth,    M.    H 65 

Gary,    Alice 86,    92 

Catherine  of  Russia 134 

Cato   33 

Cecil,    Robert 10 

Cervantes,    Saavedra,    de 44 

Chadwick,    John    White 120 

Channing,    W.   E 30,     38,     88,      113,  109,  123 

Chap-Book    42 

Chapin,    Henry    D 29 

Cheney,  John  Vance 79 

Chesterfield,  Philip  D.  S 51 

Child,    Lydia    Maria 97 

Chinese    Proverb 68 

Clarke,  Adam 47 


152  Index  to  Authors 


mBftmmmmamai 
PAGE 


Clarke,   James   Freeman 116 

Clarke,    James    G 9 

Cleveland,    Rose    E 64 

Clough,  A.  H 133 

Coleridge,   Samuel  T 33 

Collyer,  Robert 96 

Colton,    Walter 80 

Confucius   30,  62,  131 

Cooke,    Rose    Terry 46 

Coolidge,    Susan 139 

Cowper,    William 104 

Craddock,    Charles    Egbert 127 

Cuyler,    T.    L 53 

Davy,    Sir    Humphrey 98 

Dickens,    Charles .94,  125 

Dickinson,    Emilie lOO 

Dresser,    H.    W 76,84,85,88,111,115,120 

Drew    93 

Drummond,    Henry 77,  36,  66,  83,  88 

Dryden,    John 112 

Eliot,   Chas.   H 127,  131 

Eliot,    George 40,  73,  127,  loi,  102,  112,  125 

Eliot,  Henrietta  R 23 

Emerson,    Ralph   Waldo 15,  19,  22,  24,  29,  31,  32,  35,  38, 

44,     46,     47,  48,  54,  55,  57,  66,  70,  71,  87,  93,  97,  98,  108. 

log,  114,  115,  120,  121,  122,  130,  135,  137. 

Epictetus    27,  61,    81 

Ewing,    Juliana    H 50 

Farrar,    Canon 94,  120 

Fletcher,    Horace 15,    68 

Foss,  S.  W 105 


Index  to  Authors  153 

PAGH 

Franklin,    Benjamin 94,  121,  133 

French,    R.    C 81 

Frothingham,  N.  L 66 

Furness   54 

Gannett,   W.   C IS,  103 

Gerhardt,    Paulus 84 

Gibbon,    Edward 22 

Gibbons,    Cardinal 131 

Gladstone,    William    Ewart 10 

Gleim,  J.  W.  L 73 

Goethe,    Johann    Wolfgang 67,  78,  85 

Goethe's    Mother 3c 

Griggs,    Edward    Howard 128 

Guerin,  de,  Eugenie 8; 

Hale,    Edward    Everett 10,  33,  81,  144 

Hale,    Sir   Mathew 121 

Hall,  E.  B Ill 

Hamilton,  A.  E 51 

Hamilton,    Gail 119 

Harrison,    Elizabeth 85 

Hegeman,  Mrs.  A.  B iii 

Herbert,    George 71,  91,  146 

Herbert,  Lord  Edward 53 

Herder,    von,    Johann    Gottfried 40 

Higginson,  Thomas  Wentworth ^2y  loi 

Hillel,    Rabbi 2-7,  96 

Hillis,    Newell    Dwight 20,  ZZ*  58,  46,  84 

Holland,    J.    G 41 

Holmes,    Oliver  Wendell 10,  53,  92,  106,  135 

Hosmer,    F.    L 98 

Howard,   Flora 145 

Hov/ard,    W.    D 54 


154  Index  to  Authors 

FAQB 

Howe,  Julia  Ward 99 

Howells,  William  D 58,  in 

Hughes,   Thomas 106 

Hugo,  Victor 59,    68 

Huntington,  J.   D 27 

Jameson,    Anna 54 

Japanese    Proverb 27,  131,  140 

Johnson,    Samuel .78,  80,  130 

Jones,  Jenkin  Lloyd 12,    87 

Jordan,  David  Starr 13,  16,  36,  22,  25,  31,  59,  73,  86,  102, 

104,  126,  135. 
Jowett,  Benjamin 98,  121 

Keary,    Annie 97 

Kelty    15 

Kempis,   a,   Thomas 114 

King,  Thomas  Starr 35 

Kingsley,    Charles 50,  90,  147 

Kipling,    Rudyard 124 

La    Horke 126 

Lavater,   J.   K loi,  128 

Le   Conte,   Joseph 57 

Lessing,  Gotthold  Ephraim 108 

Lewis,  Gertrude 61 

Lincoln,    Abraham 24,  119 

Livermore,  Mrs.  Mary  A 18,    51 

Locke,    John 51 

Longfellow,    Henry    Wadsworth 10,  25,  56,  58,  64,  68,  70, 

99,  127,  129,  146. 

Lowell,   James    Russell 14,  19,  34,  47,  64,  73,  80,  83,  84, 

100,  113,  144. 

Lubbock,   Sir  John 50,  64,  100,  123,  126,  128 


Index  to  Authors  155 

PAOO 

Lyon,  Mary 60 

Mabie,   Hamilton   Wright 20,  31,  40,  61,  66,  71,  85,  87, 

108,  112,  114,  124,  127,  140,  142. 

Macdonald,    Geo 79,  49,  66,  114,  134 

MacLaren,    Ian ^^^    90 

Mann,   Horace 19,    83 

Markham,   Edwin 65,  116 

Martineau,    James 35,  83,  loi,  102 

Mason,    Caroline 60 

Massey,    Gerald 117 

Materlinck,    Maurice 14,  48,  61,  57,  116,  123,  142 

McLean,  Rev.  J.  K 88,    96 

Meredith,    George 64 

Merriam,   Geo.   S 79,    46 

Miller,  J.  R 62,  133 

Milton,  John 114 

Montaigne,    de,    Michel    Eyquem 44.  55,  80,    96 

More,    Hannah 35 

Mulford,    Prentice 36,    33,124 

Muloch,  Dinah  Maria 31,    92 

Newcomb,   Charles  B 14,  22,  41,  53,  59,  62,  98,  116,  126 

Paulist    Fathers 109 

Parker,    Theodore 103,  113 

Peabody,    Andrew    Preston 70 

Plato    94,  115,  143 

Pliny    131 

Plutarch    88 

Purington,   Lilian 71,  93 

Quarles,    Francis 144 

Quincy,    Josiah w 78 


156  Index  to  Authors 

PAGE 

Raleigh  Sir  Walter 96 

Ravignon,   de ^7 

Richards,    Ellen 132 

Richardson,   Ellen  A 104 

Richardson,   Nellie  M 115 

Riley,  James   Whitcomb 109 

Robertson,    F.    W 29,  54 

RolHns,  Alice  W 31 

Rossetti,    Christina 80 

Royce,    Josiah 136 

Ruskin,    John 7,  22,  30,  36,  50,  58,  65,  71,  83,  88,  93,  94, 

115,  125,  144. 

Russell,   M.    E 139 

Sala,  George  Augustus. 92 

Sales,  de,  St.  Francis 81,  103,  130 

Savage,  Minot  T 90 

Scott,   Sir  Walter 35 

Seneca    81,  99,  106,  118,  130 

Shakespeare,    William. 10,  25,  38,  103,  104,  112,  142,  146 

Sidney,  Sir  Philip 106 

Sill,  Edward  Rowland 16,  46,  50,    ^7 

Smiles,    Samuel 29,    66 

Smiley,  J.   B 22 

Smith,  Mary  Roberts 70 

Smith,    Sidney 30 

Smith,    William 20 

Spaulding,    Bishop 102 

Spurgeon,    Charles    Haddon 125 

Stevenson,    Robert   Louis 146 

Story,   William   W 86 

Taylor,   Jeremy 92,  114 

Tesla,    Nikola 103 


Index  to  Authors  157 

FAQH 

Tennyson,    Alfred 79,  119,  135 

Thaxter,  Celia 31 

Thomas,   H.   W 35 

Thoreau,    Henry   D 12,  ^2,  22,  30,  40,  44,  47,  76,  93,  100, 

106,  134. 

Torrey,    Bradford 138 

Toynbee,    Arnold 142 

Trine,    R.    W 16,  74»  24,  38,  87,  123 

Twain,    Mark 146 

Van  Dyke,  Henry 55 

Virgil 58 

Voltaire,  de,  Frangois  Marie  Arouet 29 

Ward,  Mrs.  Thomas  Humphrey 105 

Ware,  J.  F.  W 31 

Warner,    Anna 57 

Washington,  George 47,  96,  122 

Watts,    Isaac 137 

Wendte,    Charles    W 145 

Wescott,    Canon 133 

Whiting,    Lilian 29,  30,  ZZ,  44,  46,  47,  50,  Si,  7i,  1^.  7Zy 

74,    78,    84,  92,  loi,  104,  105,  106,  108,  112,  114,  118,  122, 

125.  ^Z^,  iZ7y  145. 

Whittier,  John  Greenleaf 20,  146,  53,  119 

Wood,    Henry 57,  63,  118,  138 

Worcester,    Alice   E 63 

Wordsworth,    William 15,  59 

Yoga,    Raja : 68 

Yo«ng,    Edward 108 

Zimmermann,  von,  Johann  Georg 78 


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